And in a potentially biohazard situation, like a sample collection vessel, a person of ordinary skill in the art would like to eliminate that particular sharp. And Mr. Leinsing, who is the Petitioner's expert, he declared that a POSA would have recognized that the knife in Plante's sample collection system created a ...
But then he was asked could it also include eliminating the sharp, and, again, he answered one possible way of eliminating the ability of a person to hurt themselves on a sharp element is to eliminate that sharp element.
A person of ordinary skill in the art would recognize the hazard associated with a knife and a sharp.
The petition, at page 29, provides that a person of ordinary skill in the art, quote, would have been motivated to combine the teachings of Plante and Cho because they are in the same field of endeavor and address the same problem.
The petition at page 30 provides that a person of ordinary skill in the art, quote, would have been motivated by design incentives to replace Plante's approach of using a knife in the vessel with Cho's safer design using an annular valve in the cap. A POSA would have ...
... the scope of Plante much the same as this device does but that does perhaps pose a risk of injury and has a sharper or longer knife or a knife that's closer to the user or something along those lines that might, in fact, motivate a person ...
... injury with respect to its knife. So, for example, a person cannot touch the knife from the side or the bottom due to the rigid wall 6. In Plante, the knife is described as being carefully positioned, meaning that it would be not placed in a ...
No expert has talked about their personal experiences in the kitchen. I think what's very clear from the record, and Professor Wereley has addressed this over and over in both his direct testimony and his cross-examination testimony, Your Honors, is that the sharpness ...