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Your original comment that monocasa responded to read only:

> If the claims are non-novel or obvious, then the examiners, who are familiar with the state of the art in the field, will reject them.

Which displays a stunning level of naivety and lack of familiarity with our patent system. Patents are regularly granted for extremely trivial (edit: and obvious) mechanisms.



That's because triviality isn't an issue in patents, non-obviousness and inventiveness is what's key, so it doesn't matter that the thing accomplished is trivial.


Because it seems I need to really spell it out, there are a lot of obvious and non-inventive patents being granted.


That's something that is certainly frequently asserted here but I've never seen any proof besides someone linking to one or two patents they don't like.




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