obviousness

I agree with #3 – this rivals in obviousness the idea of using 1-click to buy something online, which resulted in interminable squabbling and litigation about who thought of such an obvious thing first. —

Google’s Search Goes Out to Sea - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

His penchant for exploitive obviousness is in full tow.

GreenCine Daily: DVDs, 1/5. 2007

The issue of obviousness is somewhat of a red herring.

Patent Impending 2007

The issue of obviousness is somewhat of a red herring.

Patent Impending 2007

The issue of obviousness is somewhat of a red herring.

Patent Impending 2007

My tolerance for such obviousness is low right now.

Oook « Lab Kat 2005

The claim has a certain surface plausibility, but it’s usually awfully hard to keep a straight face when contemplating particular examples, and the grounds for insisting that your retrospective intuition of obviousness is mistaken almost always amounts to pointing out that the first guy to file the patent was — they’ll keep saying it until you grasp this thorny concept — the first guy to file the patent.

Two Kinds of Innovation 2009

But pre-KSR precedent refutes Plaintiffs' theory of non-obviousness, which is that the costs of the coating process would have dissuaded a skilled formulator from combining the references.

SDNY Takes on KSR - And Finds Patent Obvious Peter Zura 2007

But pre-KSR precedent refutes Plaintiffs' theory of non-obviousness, which is that the costs of the coating process would have dissuaded a skilled formulator from combining the references.

Archive 2007-06-01 Peter Zura 2007

Perhaps instead of discussing which is the "more obvious" interpretation, which ultimately doesn't prove anything since "obviousness" is a matter of perception, we should be focusing on the relevant contextual and comparative information.

Is It Better To View Jesus' Prediction as Trite or Mistaken? James F. McGrath 2009