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In Reply to: Re: Novelty and inventive step posted by Brian Cheney on October 23, 2005 at 12:04:09:
In almost every case you can differentiate the invention (as claimed) from prior art, but this will mean that the claim is probably very restricted, which limits your possibilities and my hence be of no great interest, commercially speaking.
The corresponding units in our European classification which would have to be searched, contain about 1300 documents, you most certainly don't know them all. You are obliged to cite prior art in the application, but what you cite will be only a fraction of what's actually existing. If not, a prior art search would not be needed.I'm searching US classes whenever appropriate, does the USPTO examiner search European classes?
I did not look at all 1300 documents, and I don't know how your claims are drafted, but from my quick search I would conclude that an inventive step objection might be possible. The fact that your waveguide panel is (possibly) new on planar speakers does not automatically mean it's also inventive. But that depends on what documents the examiner finds and how he approaches the inventive step issue. I know from personal experience, that for those applications which are treated by USPTO first and then go the European route, in most cases we at EPO find better documents than the USPTO. And I had also cases where the US examiner granted the claim and I rejected it, using the very same documents.
Good luck in any case.
Klaus
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