{"id":10420,"date":"2019-03-18T16:13:39","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T22:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=10420"},"modified":"2019-03-18T16:29:17","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T22:29:17","slug":"chimeric-hindsight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=10420","title":{"rendered":"Chimeric hindsight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was talking with one of my clients today about how patent law allows multiple references to be combined together.  His mind immediately jumped to the mythological Chimera &#8212; a fire-breathing creature formed from the body of a lion, head of a goat, and tail of a snake.  That struck me as quite an appropriate characterization of many \u00a7103 invalidity arguments &#8212; three things that have nothing to do with one another that are merely cobbled together to make a fire-breathing monstrosity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"220\" height=\"220\" src=\"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/220px-Chimera_Apulia_Louvre_K362.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/220px-Chimera_Apulia_Louvre_K362.jpg 220w, https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/220px-Chimera_Apulia_Louvre_K362-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I checked the CCPA and CAFC decisions and do not see any references to the mythological Chimera.  Perhaps a decision in the future will note that &#8220;<em>the section 103 analysis relied upon Chimeric hindsight and is therefore reversed.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See also [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=10305\">Frankenstraction<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was talking with one of my clients today about how patent law allows multiple references to be combined together. His mind immediately jumped to the mythological Chimera &#8212; a fire-breathing creature formed from the body of a lion, head of a goat, and tail of a snake. That struck me as quite an appropriate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10420"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10420"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10426,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10420\/revisions\/10426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}