Innovention Toys, LLC v. MGA Entertainment, Inc.

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• remanding on determination of nonobviousness where the district court applied an improperly low level of skill in the art for the court to “make a finding on the level of skill in the art and base its obviousness analysis on that level of skill” on remand
• remanding on determination of nonobviousness where the district court applied an improperly low level of skill in the art for the court to “make a finding on the level of skill in the art and base its obviousness analysis on that level of skill” on remand
• remanding on determination of nonobviousness where the district court applied an improperly low level of skill in the art for the court to “make a finding on the level of skill in the art and base its obviousness analysis on that level of skill” on remand
• “A less sophisticated level of skill gener- ally favors a determination of nonobviousness, and thus the patentee, while a higher level of skill favors the reverse.” (citation omitted)
• “A less sophisticated level of skill generally favors a determination of nonobviousness, and thus the patentee, while a higher, level of skill favors the reverse.”
• district court erred in setting level of ordinary skill to that of a layperson even though party challenging patent’s validity failed to present evidence on it

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).