{"id":1318,"date":"2009-12-13T15:44:27","date_gmt":"2009-12-13T21:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=1318"},"modified":"2009-12-13T15:44:27","modified_gmt":"2009-12-13T21:44:27","slug":"more-on-common-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=1318","title":{"rendered":"More on &#8220;common sense&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The panel in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Source Search Technologies, LLC v. LendingTree, LLC<\/span> weighed in on the common sense issue during oral argument.\u00a0 You can listen to Judge Plager&#8217;s remarks and Judge Rader&#8217;s tongue in cheek remarks here: [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/2008-1505-excerpt-1.mp3\">Listen<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>The invention at issue in this case was invented in the 1995-96 timeframe.\u00a0 At one point during the oral argument Judge Rader made the interesting\u00a0inquiry of appellee&#8217;s counsel\u00a0that given the nascent stage of the internet in 1995-96,\u00a0 what would have been the motivation or market force\u00a0to combine\u00a0brick and mortar references to achieve the claimed invention.\u00a0[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/2008-1505-excerpt-21.mp3\">Listen<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Judge Plager had the following\u00a0follow-up comment for appellee&#8217;s counsel\u00a0[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/2008-1505-excerpt-3.mp3\">Listen<\/a>] to which Judge Rader responded.<\/p>\n<p>Query:\u00a0 People often note the speed with which the internet has evolved.\u00a0 Should that change the calculus in the consideration of &#8220;long-felt need&#8221;\u00a0under the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Graham<\/span> factors?\u00a0 If it takes less time for innovation to occur in the art of computers and\u00a0the\u00a0internet as opposed to the art of plows and combines, wouldn&#8217;t it be appropriate for\u00a0long-felt need to be assessed\u00a0relative to the speed with which an industry evolves?<\/p>\n<p>You can read the court&#8217;s opinion here: [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafc.uscourts.gov\/opinions\/08-1505.pdf\">Read<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>You can listen to the entire oral argument here: [<a href=\"http:\/\/oralarguments.cafc.uscourts.gov\/mp3\/2008-1505.mp3\">Listen<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The panel in Source Search Technologies, LLC v. LendingTree, LLC weighed in on the common sense issue during oral argument.\u00a0 You can listen to Judge Plager&#8217;s remarks and Judge Rader&#8217;s tongue in cheek remarks here: [Listen]. The invention at issue in this case was invented in the 1995-96 timeframe.\u00a0 At one point during the oral [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318"}],"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=1318"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1337,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions\/1337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}