4 Nov
2006
4 Nov
'06
09:03
On 2006-11-04 02:51, John Andersen wrote:
On Friday 03 November 2006 21:04, Randall R Schulz wrote:
However, their is a "non-obviousness" requirement, and the example of combining GPS with a PCI card is clearly obvious and this (hypothetical?) example should be rejected by the PTO (Patent and Trademark Office).
I submit that what is claimed to be obvious in hind-sight is usually a a stroke of genius beforehand, and often met with derision.
And I, in turn, submit that if I, while looking for a GPS solution for an NTP server can wonder, without ever having seen such a thing, or read about such a thing, if there was such a thing as a GPS unit on a PCI card, then it is quite obvious.