| Abstract: |  When did you notice the first stirrings of becoming an IP man? Straight after graduation, Italian chemical company Edison askedme to consider the validity of some of Natta's polypropylenepatents, for which he won the Nobel prize, owned by Edison'sItalian competitor Montecatini. After some months I concludedthey were invalid for obviousness (the legal concept of obviousnesshaving nothing to do with reality). Later, Edison and Montecatinimerged and I had to say that the patents were valid. The same patents were declared invalid in the US after epiclitigation that |
