Application of Robert v. Antle

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• claimed invention for mobile produce packing; prior art included produce preserving and plastic film wrapping
• inventor presumed to have the “ability to select and utilize knowledge from other arts reasonably pertinent to his particular problem which would be expected of a man of ordinary skill in the art to which the subject matter pertains.”
• warning against selection of prior art with hindsight
• warning against selection of prior art with hindsight
• “ ‘Section 103 requires us to presume full knowledge by the inventor of the yrior art in the field of his endeavor’ * * *, but it does not require us to presume full knowledge by the inventor of prior art outside the field of his endeavor, i.e., of ‘non-analogous’ art.”

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