Whether the nonobviousness of an invention exists or not ought to be determined on the basis of at least the materials included in records such as evidence, etc., with respect to the scope and content of prior art, the difference between an invention, which is subject to the judgment of nonobviousness, and prior art and the technical level of a person with ordinary knowledge of the technical field to which the invention belongs,
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and, even though an invention subject to the judgment of nonobviousness was distinct from prior art in terms of the technical level at the time the patent application was filed, whether an ordinary skilled person can overcome such distinction and easily create an invention on the basis of the prior art ought to be considered.
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In such a case, whether the invention can be easily created by an ordinary skilled person ex post facto should not be determined under the premise that the technologies described in the statement of an invention subject to the judgment on nonobviousness are known.
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