And, remember, we are looking for some non-obvious picks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Who had the "Worst Week in Washington"?] Reference

I like minds that make connections between the non-obvious.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-09-01] Reference

A patent, most would agree, ought to be novel, non-obvious and useful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Microsoft's Courtside Competition] Reference

When the two waves pass one another, they combine in a non-obvious way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Optics basics: What is a wave? Part II: Interference « Skulls in the Stars] Reference

As source material for a big Hollywood blockbuster, Watchmen is non-obvious.    From Wordnik.com.  [Filming the Unfilmable: Behind the Scenes of the Watchmen Movie] Reference

From a consumer perspective, customers should be made aware of the non-obvious.    From Wordnik.com.  [What do you want on a back label? | Dr Vino's wine blog] Reference

They fail the classic patenting criteria of being novel, useful, and non-obvious.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paul Kedrosky: Software Patents Need to Be Abolished] Reference

If something is novel and non-obvious, it can be patented by the first person to invent it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Friendster awarded patent on social networking] Reference

"The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious." by Marcus Aurelius.    From Wordnik.com.  [Back 2 School Swap] Reference

The only thing worse than revealing obvious plot points is revealing non-obvious plot points.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trek 2.0, Boldly Going to Hell] Reference

Substantively, I have my doubts as to whether tests based on genetic markers are non-obvious.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Gene Patent(s?) Invalidated:] Reference

Are there any examples of field theories arising from ODEs in similarly “non-obvious” ways?.    From Wordnik.com.  [News From The Front, III] Reference

Courts, on the other hand, judge patents by whether the invention is "novel" and "non-obvious.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Pay-For-Delay Or Pay-For-Innovation?] Reference

There are a lot of non-obvious and very subtle issues and they seem to have addressed some of them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rapleaf to Challenge Ebay Feedback] Reference

How about some posts regarding your views of non-obvious controversial issues, both serious and light?.    From Wordnik.com.  [granite and chisel] Reference

If the jury concludes that a solution was obvious, a second non-obvious question must be put to the jury.    From Wordnik.com.  [Should Obviousness in Patent Cases be Bifurcated to Avoid Hindsight Bias? (Part 2 of 2)] Reference

They need to be able to imagine the non-obvious, both in clinical diagnosis and in personal interactions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Just Imagine] Reference

At the risk of some inaccuracy, patents are supposed to be granted for non-obvious advances in technology.    From Wordnik.com.  [B2fxxx] Reference

But changing the colors to be more “pleasing” to the eye in a non-obvious manner such as this is wrong.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obamideal: Magazine Photoshops Prez Image for Cover, Is It Ethical? - Warner_Todd_Huston’s blog - RedState] Reference

It†™ s supposed to push progress forward by opening non-obvious ideas for everyone for a limited time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Friendster awarded patent on social networking] Reference

Everyone wants links, and yet lots of people I know, prefer to get their links in a non-obvious kind of way.    From Wordnik.com.  [B’RRRRRRRing, B’RRRRRRRRRing « The Life and Times of Organic Mama] Reference

The trouble is, fragments of the stuff that's generated actually say something good, useful, and non-obvious.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-04-01] Reference

However, a review of Federal Circuit non-obvious decisions suggests that the court rarely engages in such conduct.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-11-01] Reference

There are non-obvious scenarios where you cannot tell whether your accelerator is sticking such as the hill example.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Toyota Facing $16 Million Fine …] Reference

There is a very important sense in which the graphic art that lasts is determined by non-obvious forms of acceptability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rude Britannia: British Comic Art, at Tate Britain] Reference

Once the evidence probative of the non-obviousness issue is determined, the non-obvious stage of the trial would commence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Should Obviousness in Patent Cases be Bifurcated to Avoid Hindsight Bias? (Part 2 of 2)] Reference

The non-obvious issue often would be tried first, at least for trials in which the same jury is expected to hear all issues.    From Wordnik.com.  [Should Obviousness in Patent Cases be Bifurcated to Avoid Hindsight Bias? (Part 2 of 2)] Reference

You'll note I asked for a legal 101 on this one as it's one of those non-obvious things to those of us that are not lawyers.    From Wordnik.com.  […but we agreed, we have a contract! waaaah] Reference

I said it before and I will say it again, I do like a lot this non-obvious, quiet, shall I say, "sensitive" masculine tendency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brooklyn by Bond No 9: Perfume Review] Reference

In addition, a second special verdict form could be given to the jury with detailed instructions for deciding the non-obvious issue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Should Obviousness in Patent Cases be Bifurcated to Avoid Hindsight Bias? (Part 2 of 2)] Reference

The results reported here indicate that the suggestion test does not distort non-obvious decisions in the manner claimed by critics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-11-01] Reference

Looks like it was designed by the same person who brings you Maxine and a couple of other non-obvious trolls currently being tested.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Give me a signal: Adjust your shorts."] Reference

The correct but non-obvious answer is no, assuming one accepts the definition that inflation and deflation are monetary phenomenon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Same Data / Different Interpretation] Reference

There is very little on the Nanowrimo website that offers explicit warnings, and what there is is in non-obvious, easy to overlook places.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hey NaNoWRIMo--You're Doing the Right Thing!!!] Reference

Over the long term, there is possibly a latent (hidden) period before evidence of non-obvious consequences of oil pollution are discovered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beyond the BP spill, a case of chronic oil pollution] Reference