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The “person skilled in the art”, “skilled person”, “man skilled in the art”, or “skilled man” is a legal fiction of a person that knows all content of the state of the art of a patent application in the technical art of the subject-matter of the patent application. In contrast to knowing everything that was disclosed in the technical art, the person skilled in the art has great difficulty combining the knowlegde of different disclosures. The notion of the person skilled in the art is used amongst other things in assessing inventive step (Art. 56 EPC) and in determining what knowledge can actually be learned from a disclosure.