person of ordinary skill in the art
(US, legal) In United States patent law, the hypothetical individual whose likely knowledge determines whether an improvement on existing technology would be obvious, and therefore not patentable.
Definitions
(US, legal) In United States patent law, the hypothetical individual whose likely knowledge determines whether an improvement on existing technology would be obvious, and therefore not patentable.
Comments
Have a better definition?
Add your own interpretation of "person of ordinary skill in the art".
🗺️About Regional & Other slang
Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
See all Regional & Other slang on Slangora.
Tags
Other words near "person of ordinary skill in the art" (P)
Browse all slang words starting with P.
Related terms
People also read
Semantically related
- person having ordinary skill in the art89%
(UK, law) A hypothetical person having the normal skills and knowledge in a particular technical field (an "art"), without being a genius; used in a legal test related to patents.
- moron in a hurry55%
(UK, law) Any hypothetical person used in a legal test related to trade marks; the "moron in a hurry" is the only person who could reasonably be imagined to confuse two marks.
- exhausted combination55%
(US, legal) The combination, in a patent claim, of a novel device with conventional elements in a conventional manner.
- doctrine of equivalents54%
(legal, US) A legal rule in most patent systems that allows a court to hold a party liable for patent infringement when the infringing device or process does not fall within the literal scope of a patent claim, but nevertheless is equivalent to the claimed invention.
- re-examination54%
(legal, US) In United States patent law, a procedure under which an issued patent is returned to the examiner to determine if it remains valid in light of newly discovered prior art.