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The Principle Of Holistic Assessment Of Inventiveness In Light Of Technical Feature Synergy
The Supreme People's Court has issued a landmark ruling clarifying that patent inventiveness must be assessed holistically, considering all technical features and their coordination relationships together rather than evaluating each feature in isolation. This decision addresses a critical methodological question in patent examination: how should reviewing bodies properly evaluate the inventive contribution of interconnected technical features to avoid the trap of hindsight reasoning?
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