Osita

Osita may refer to:

1837 Osita

1837 Osita, provisional designation 1971 QZ₁, is a stony asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, about 8 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on August 16, 1971 by American astronomer James B. Gibson at the Yale–Columbia Southern Station of the Leoncito Astronomical Complex in Argentina.

The main-belt asteroid is a member of the Flora family. It orbits the Sun at a distance of 2.0–2.4 AU once every 3 years and 3 months (1,196 days). It has a rotation period of 3.819 hours. The geometric albedo of the S-type asteroid is in a close range of 0.19–0.20, as measured by the Akari and WISE/NEOWISE surveys, respectively.

It was named by the discoverer after his wife Ursula, of which Osita is the Spanish equivalent. She volunteered as an assistant and actively participated in the observations by measuring or reducing more than 150 positions of comets and minor planets.

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Person having ordinary skill in the art

The person having ordinary skill in the art (often abbreviated PHOSITA in the United States), the person of ordinary skill in the art, the skilled addressee, person skilled in the art or simply the skilled person is a legal fiction found in many patent laws throughout the world. This fictional person is considered to have the normal skills and knowledge in a particular technical field, without being a genius. He or she mainly serves as a reference for determining, or at least evaluating, whether an invention is non-obvious or not (in U.S. patent law), or involves an inventive step or not (in European patent laws). If it would have been obvious for this fictional person to come up with the invention while starting from the prior art, then the particular invention is considered not patentable.

In some patent laws, the person skilled in the art is also used as a reference in the context of other criteria, for instance in order to determine whether an invention is sufficiently disclosed in the description of the patent or patent application (sufficiency of disclosure is a fundamental requirement in most patent laws), or in order to determine whether two technical means are equivalents when evaluating infringement (see also doctrine of equivalents).