Assessment of inventive step

….Technical feasibility and the absence of obstacles are only necessary requirements for reproducibility, and are not sufficient to render obvious what was actually achievable for the skilled person. The fact that the inherent properties of a technical means were known to the skilled person, and that he had the intellectual possibility of applying this means in a conventional device, merely establishes the possibility of using such technical means in such a manner.

However, it is necessary to establish that such an intellectual possibility represents a technical measure that is obvious for the skilled person to use. It is thus necessary to show that there is a recognisable pointer in the state of the art to combine, for example, a known means and a conventional device to solve a technical problem, i.e. that the skilled person would in fact have made such a combination.