http://www.thefireofgenius.com/2006/08/28/what-does-the-phosita-invent-take-3/ Academic commentary about patent law, i.p. law, creativity, and more Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:39:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 http://www.thefireofgenius.com/2006/08/28/what-does-the-phosita-invent-take-3/#comment-3674 The Fire of Genius » New pleas for the “suggestion test” Sun, 10 Sep 2006 17:41:10 +0000 http://www.thefireofgenius.com/2006/08/28/what-does-the-phosita-invent-take-3/#comment-3674 [...] core question is “yes.” Filed under: Patent , IP Policy , Supreme Court Permalink | Trackback URL| [...] […] core question is “yes.” Filed under: Patent , IP Policy , Supreme Court Permalink | Trackback URL| […]

]]> http://www.thefireofgenius.com/2006/08/28/what-does-the-phosita-invent-take-3/#comment-3212 madisonian.net » A PHOSITA for Copyright Tue, 29 Aug 2006 16:41:52 +0000 http://www.thefireofgenius.com/2006/08/28/what-does-the-phosita-invent-take-3/#comment-3212 [...] Over at The Fire of Genius, Joe Miller has a series of posts, inspired by the briefs in KSR International v. Teleflex, on the practical meaning of patent law’s PHOSITA standard: “What does the POSITA invent?” Part I, Part II, Part III, and Part IV. The essential thrust of the whole argument is that the Federal Circuit’s “suggestion” understates the extent to which a skilled artisan knows how to manipulate the tools of a given field to combine, recombine, and reconfigure existing technologies. But read the whole thing. And can someone please settle, once and for all, whether the proper phrase and acronym is PHOSITA (Person Having Ordinary Skill in the Art) or POSITA (Person of Ordinary Skill in the Art)? [...] […] Over at The Fire of Genius, Joe Miller has a series of posts, inspired by the briefs in KSR International v. Teleflex, on the practical meaning of patent law’s PHOSITA standard: “What does the POSITA invent?” Part I, Part II, Part III, and Part IV. The essential thrust of the whole argument is that the Federal Circuit’s “suggestion” understates the extent to which a skilled artisan knows how to manipulate the tools of a given field to combine, recombine, and reconfigure existing technologies. But read the whole thing. And can someone please settle, once and for all, whether the proper phrase and acronym is PHOSITA (Person Having Ordinary Skill in the Art) or POSITA (Person of Ordinary Skill in the Art)? […]

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