person of ordinary skill in the art

English

Noun

person of ordinary skill in the art (plural persons of ordinary skill in the art)

  1. (US, law) In United States patent law, the hypothetical individual whose likely knowledge determines whether an improvement on existing technology would be obvious, and therefore not patentable.

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