{"id":2950,"date":"2021-03-07T21:47:58","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T03:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=2950"},"modified":"2021-03-07T21:47:58","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T03:47:58","slug":"hindsight-may-be-20-20-but-it-has-no-place-in-evaluating-obviousness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=2950","title":{"rendered":"Hindsight May be 20-20, but it has no Place in Evaluating Obviousness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In <em>Gillette Co. v. S.C. Johnson &amp; Son, Inc.<\/em>, 919 F.2d 720, 16 U.S.P.Q.2d 1923 (Fed. Cir. 1990), the Federal Circuit affirmed the district court&#8217;s determination that U.S. Patent No. 3,541,581 on a shaving preparation was not invalid under 35 USC 103.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Federal Circuit rejected Gillette&#8217;s obviousness argument as based upon hindsight, quoting from Milton&#8217;s Paradise Lost:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p> The invention all admired, and each how he<\/p><p> To be the inventor missed;  so easy it seemed,<\/p><p>Once found, which yet unfound most would have thought,<\/p><p>Impossible!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PARADISE LOST, Part VI, L. 478-501<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Gillette Co. v. S.C. Johnson &amp; Son, Inc., 919 F.2d 720, 16 U.S.P.Q.2d 1923 (Fed. Cir. 1990), the Federal Circuit affirmed the district court&#8217;s determination that U.S. Patent No. 3,541,581 on a shaving preparation was not invalid under 35 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=2950\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2951,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2950\/revisions\/2951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}