In Re GPAC Inc.

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• noting that review of prior art references provides “valuable insight” into level of skill in the art
• identifying essentially the same factors in determining differences between the prior art and the claimed invention
• “The person 21 of ordinary skill in the art is a hypothetical person who is presumed to know the relevant prior 22 art.”
• “To the extent that the patentee demonstrates the required nexus, his objective evidence of nonobviousness will be accorded more or less weight.”
• \prior art relevant to an obviousness determination necessarily encompasses not only the field of the inventor's endeavor but also any analogous arts.\
• “[T]he prior art relevant to an obviousness determination necessarily encompasses not only the field of the inventor's endeavor but also any analogous arts.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).