Person Skilled In The Art

Concept of Person skilled in the Art in IP Law

[rtbs name=”intellectual-property-law”]Lambert defined person skilled in the art as follows: The person or persons to whom a patent application is addressed. A person or team of persons with the skills and knowledge to make or  use an invention but not necessarily to invent the invention unless the invention was obvious,  A “person skilled in the art” is sometimes called “the skilled addressee” and in old law reports as “the man skilled in the art.”