Patently-O has up a PDF of the KSR v Teleflex ruling (which, by the way, was unanimous). Basically, the court says that, while the original precedents provide adequate guidance for obviousness, the Federal Circuit has interpreted that guidance too narrowly, arguing that “Rigid preventative rules that deny recourse to common sense are neither necessary under, […]
Archive for April, 2007
More on the Supreme Court Ruling
Published by April 30th, 2007 in Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!) and Open Source, Open Content, Open Access. 1 CommentSupreme Court Strikes a Major Blow for Patent Reform
Published by April 30th, 2007 in Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!) and Open Source, Open Content, Open Access. 3 CommentsThis is huge. Today the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the case of KSR v. Teleflex, where the central issue was the meaning of “obviousness.” The reason that the word is important in patent law is because an innovation that is deemed “obvious” is not patentable. For example, Teleflex had combined two existing devices for […]
A New Article Out
Published by April 25th, 2007 in Usability and Human Factors and Educational Pattern Languages. 7 CommentsI’ve been so busy lately that I haven’t even had time to post notice that I have a new article published in ALT-N. I’ve been having conversations on and off with Rob Abel about ways to ensure that educational technology standards (and, of course, the educational technologies themselves) are more effectively informed by our developing […]
