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Sep. 5th, 2006 09:59 pm"In citing a previous case on a similar issue Judge Townsend responded to what today is called the 'doctrine of obviousness':
quoted from "Wizzard: the life and times of Nikola Tesla", by Marc J. Seifer. ISBN 1-55972-329-7 ( 1996)
The apparent simplicity of a new device often leads an inexperienced person to think that it would have occured to anyone familiar with the subject, but the decisive answer is that with dozens and perhaps hundreds of others laboring in the same field, it had never occured to anyone before [Potta v. Creager, 155 US 597]
quoted from "Wizzard: the life and times of Nikola Tesla", by Marc J. Seifer. ISBN 1-55972-329-7 ( 1996)
