inciter

English translation: encourage

11:34 Sep 25, 2014
French to English translations [PRO]
Law/Patents - Patents
French term or phrase: inciter
Patent analysis.

"La question décisive à laquelle il faut répondre en droit européen est de savoir si un homme du métier qui disposerait du module de XX et qui souhaiterait obtenir ces effets techniques, serait incité ou non par l'enseignement de YY à modifier ce module de XX pour l'obtention de cette revendication 15....

Au vu des différences structurelles importantes entre le montage du machin de YYY à truc faisant qqch et celui de XXX à truc qui ne fait pas la même chose, on peut répondre que cet homme du métier ne serait probablement pas incité à faire telle modification ..."

Left to my own devices I'd put "prompted"... but there may be a specific patentese word ("induced"?) which is always used...
Mpoma
United Kingdom
Local time: 09:54
English translation:encourage
Explanation:
D'après mon expérience, c'est ce qu'on utilise.
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Anca Florescu-Mitchell
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Local time: 10:54
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4 +3encourage
Anca Florescu-Mitchell
4prompt (or incite)
Yvonne Gallagher
3urge
Louisa Tchaicha


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encourage


Explanation:
D'après mon expérience, c'est ce qu'on utilise.

Anca Florescu-Mitchell
France
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agree  Louisa Tchaicha: Yes I first thought of "encourage" but suggested "urged" instead :S
8 mins
  -> Thank you, Louisa.

agree  B D Finch
56 mins
  -> Thank you, B!

agree  Jean-Claude Gouin
4 hrs
  -> Thank you :).
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urge


Explanation:
just a suggestion

"Benoît Battistelli, director general of the National Institute for Industrial Property (INPI), France, urged delegates not to shy away from repressive measures since ..."
and the translation from this text:
Benoît Battistelli, directeur général de l’Institut national de la propriété industrielle (INPI) (France) a vivement incité les délégués à ne pas hésiter devant des mesures répressives

source:
http://www.wipo.int/wipo_magazine/fr/2007/02/article_0007.ht...



Louisa Tchaicha
Tunisia
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prompt (or incite)


Explanation:
I think "prompted" would be better here (higher register). Though "incited" is also used below.
http://www.epo.org/law-practice/legal-texts/html/guidelines/...

In other words, the point is not whether the skilled person could have arrived at the invention by adapting or modifying the closest prior art, but whether he would have done so because the prior art incited him to do so in the hope of solving the objective technical problem or in expectation of some improvement or advantage (see T 2/83). Even an implicit prompting or implicitly recognisable incentive is sufficient to show that the skilled person would have combined the elements from the prior art...


http://www.the-business-of-patents.com/inventive-step.html
his last step is conducted according to the "could-would approach". This is usually described as follows:

Is there any teaching in the prior art, as a whole, that would, not simply could, have prompted the skilled person, faced with the objective technical problem formulated when considering the technical features not disclosed by the closest prior art, to modify or adapt said closest prior art while taking account of that teaching [the teaching of the prior art, not just the teaching of the closest prior art], thereby arriving at something falling within the terms of the claims, and thus achieving what the invention achieves?

If the skilled person would have been prompted to modify the closest prior art in such a way as to arrive at something falling within the terms of the claims, then the invention does not involve an inventive step.

The point is not whether the skilled person could have arrived at the invention by adapting or modifying the closest prior art, but whether he would have done so because the prior art incited him to do so in the hope of solving the objective technical problem or in expectation of some improvement or advantage.



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Note added at 2 hrs (2014-09-25 14:33:48 GMT)
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well, I think "incite" is a bit more aggressive than "prompt". Kind of lighting a fire under someone to get them moving...(similar to "goad") but not necessarily "frenzied":-)

Yvonne Gallagher
Ireland
Local time: 09:54
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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Notes to answerer
Asker: thanks, yes, I also think "incite" sounds a bit "frenzied"... !

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