by Steve Driskill | Dec 30, 2013 | [sub] weighing the evidence, Obviousness
“Knowledge of the goal does not render its achievement obvious.” Obviousness generally requires that a skilled artisan have reasonably expected success in achieving that goal, and that goal in particular, not a different goal that may be a less challenging but also...
by Steve Driskill | May 1, 2013 | [sub] weighing the evidence, Obviousness
The general lesson is that obviousness involves a weighing of the evidence and that it may be the case that no issue alone is dispositive. More specific lessons are that motivation to combine in drug applications “cannot be limited to those reasons the FDA sees fit to...