"Bradley D. Thornton" <Bradley(_at_)NorthTech(_dot_)US> writes:
And the proof in the pudding for, "obvious to someone of ordinary
skill in the art.", is the existence of other systems which perform
these functions, along with evidence of basic sysadmin certification
programs which require this knowledge
That sounds backwards. Surely it should be something more like "If
this problem were set to N practitioners in the art and more than P%
of them came up with or suggested the mechanism in the patent
application (not having seen the patent application) then it is
obvious".