The proposed new rules would result in «the same as the standard applied in federal district courts and International Trade Commission («ITC») proceedings;» i.e., «ordinary and customary meaning» according to «a person of ordinary skill in the art in question at the time of the invention,» [1] and «reasonable certainty» for definiteness analysis [2]. (bioloquitur.com)
From the outset, the case has hinged on whether it was «obvious to a person of ordinary skill in the art» to do what Broad Institute researcher Feng Zhang and colleagues did with CRISPR, based on prior publications by UC Berkeley's Jennifer Doudna, working with Emmanuelle Charpentier, then of Umeå University. (sciencemag.org)
«One of ordinary skill in the art would not have reasonably expected a CRISPR - Cas9 system to be successful in a eukaryotic environment,» it wrote. (sciencemag.org)