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Law & Justice > Business Law A definition of "nonobviousness" in patent law

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So you have invented something "useful" and "new." Though both of those qualities are required, they are not sufficient to obtain a valid United States patent. In addition, your new invention must be "non-obvious." See 35 U.S.C. section 103 (a) (provided below). Obviousness is a matter of degree, which makes use of the term in a binary legal sense (i.e. patentable or not patentable) somewhat artificial. Nontheless, the essential concept is that, although no one created the invention before, it would have been easy to do so for "a person of ordinary skill in the art." Ordinary skill in the ...

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