First, and most obvious, it renders the lifelong labors of Sigmund Freud almost entirely superfluous.
At 3 years old, he was asked to leave his preschool program at the local Y.M.C.A. when his obvious boredom rendered him, in his teacher's opinion, a bad influence on the other children.
Although this question is of undoubted importance, it does not in any obvious way render equality of opportunity in its various guises a consideration of no importance.
Right now there's also lot of buzz around 3D, mostly because the new hardware is capable of it, and [there's] a lot of interesting stuff beyond the obvious "realistic-rendered-world" UIs.
In addition, the district court failed to recognize that other passages from this reference could be construed by a reasonable jury as anticipating and/or rendering obvious the allegedly novel "single action ordering technology" of the '411 patent.
The heart of the system is a computer algorithm that dramatically intensifies the tiny changes in people and objects around us, rendering obvious what to the naked eye is too subtle to be seen.
This allowed claims that patents "interfered" with each other, meaning that one "anticipated or rendered obvious the subject matter" of the other.
On Wednesday, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued an intermediate decision invalidating Apple's "pinch-to-zoom" patent as "anticipated or rendered obvious" by prior technologies.
Only when a claim is properly understood can a determination be made whether the claim "reads on" an accused device or method, or whether the prior art anticipates and/or renders obvious the claimed invention.
