What does an inventive activity mean?
Inventiveness or an inventive step signifies that the invention has prominent substantive features, compared to the prior state of the art, as to represent a notable progress in the area of the invention. It is not obvious to a person skilled in the art In determining the inventive activity as prescribed under s.5 the invention compared with the prior state of the art should indicate a difference either to the method, the application, the combination of methods or the product which it concerns, or as to the industrial result it produces. The objection must indicate objectivity and must show the problem that it has tackled and solved.
