Section 3

Question 1

What is the Pozzoli approach?

Answer 1

ia) identify the notional person skilled in the art
ib) identify the relevant common general knowledge of that person;

ii) identify the inventive concept in the claim;
iii) identify what, if any, differences there are between the material forming the state of the art and the invention as identified or construed; and
iv) decide, without any knowledge of the proposed invention as claimed, whether these differences would have been obvious to the skilled person or whether they required any degree of invention.