For some diseases, there may be non-obvious model organisms that can help in the study of underlying disease factors.
Anyone "skilled in the art" would have dismissed this patent as failing to be non-obvious — or at least I would.
He believes that the system has spun completely out of control, with the vast majority of filings not passing the fundamental tests of a patent (that it be non-obvious, novel, and unique innovation).
For those of you out there who know how patents are supposed to work, for something to be patentable it needs to be "non-obvious" as well as "unique".
Twitter (full disclosure, I still own some Twitter shares) was non-obvious to most for a long time.
What Inrix promises for drivers is non-obvious routes that will help them get to their destinations more swiftly.
Whether such a path is of minimum weight is non-obvious and dependent on the weight of each type of edge.
These are all open-ended questions, and candidate compounds and protein targets to be selected for these purposes are non-obvious.
Regarding the result page of TRRD, links to pages showing further information on TF-TG interactions of interest are all displayed at once, but the names of links are non-obvious internal identifiers used by TRRD.
The exclusion criteria were: non-obvious supination trauma, previous treatment by a general practitioner or in a different clinic, rupture of deltoid ligament, fractures, and refusal to participate on the part of the patient.
Citing Article 27 of TRIPS, which "generally mandates patentability where inventions are new, involve an inventive step (or are non-obvious), and are capable of industrial application (or are useful)" [ 5], Novartis claims that imatinib mesylate represented an "inventive step" in the drug development process due to its 30% increase in bioavailability [ 5].
