The Skilled Person
34. Although there was no apparent dispute about the identity of the skilled person, that identity was not pinned down by either side. The skilled person is an engineering technician, typically employed in the aerospace industry, with practical experience in the use of temporary fasteners for product manufacture and maintenance.
- Introduction
- The Evidence of Travis McClure
- The Experts
- The Patent
- Claim 1
- The Skilled Person
- Common General Knowledge
- Scope of the Claims
- Integer (1) – removable fastener
- Integer (2) – an elongate body
- Integer (3) – a head at one end
- Integer (8) – a screw head adjacent the first member head
- operated
- aperture in each of two workpieces
- The product alleged to infringe
- An equivalent
- Conclusion on infringement
- Validity
- Conclusion on Validity
- Insufficiency
- Overall Conclusion