Inventive Step v. Obviousness

I/P Updates blog:

On February 5, 2006, the U.K. Patent Office published the final report on the its "Public consultation on level of the inventive step required for obtaining patents:

And something noteworthy from the comment section: 

Anonymous said...

I'm a US examiner. If I wrote some of the types of rejections that come out of the EPO or UK, I'd be fired.

They'll say for example claim 1 is anticipated and claims 2-7 "lack inventive step" and don't even have to give a reason!