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John (Hi, John), the principle behind the requirement for non-obviousness is to avoid having non-inventable things being patented. That language was put in there specifically to avoid having things which "everyone" knew about get patented. Specifically, the English patent system had a problem whereby it allowed someone to patent the crank. Nobody had patented it before! Of course, the crank was something that every engineer knew about, and yet once patented, royalties were due. Under the English system. With no requirement for non-obviousness. We Americans weren't that stupid, so we required that patents be non-obvious, and something that not "everyone" knew. And yet we have somehow arrived back at the English system where anything which is not already patented is prime facie patentable. How did this happen?
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