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Obviousness is an idea central to patent law. Applicants are expected to prove that a person skilled in the area of the invention would not have come up with it himself based on existing inventions. For example, if everyone using a certain patented widget has figured out that it works better when it's bolted to the floor, the idea of bolting the widget to the floor is not patentable. Some countries refer to non-obviousness as the inventive step.

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