Novelty is one of the patentability requirement for a patent claim, whose purpose is to prevent issuing patents on known things, i.e. to prevent public...

is a concept in patent law used to determine the patentability of an invention, in particular whether an invention meets the novelty and the inventive...

innovation. However, novelty in patent law is part of the legal test to determine whether an invention is patentable. A novelty effect is the tendency...

technology itself Novelty (patent), part of the legal test to determine whether an invention is patentable Apomorphy, evolutionary novelty, a characteristic...

101 sets out "subject matter" that can be patented; section 102 defines "novelty" and "statutory bars" to patent protection; section 103 requires that an...

invention's novelty and inventive step over existing technologies. Post-grant prosecution deals with activities that occur after a patent has been granted...

of law, an invention is patentable if it meets the relevant legal conditions to be granted a patent. By extension, patentability also refers to the substantive...

central legal provision relating to the novelty under the EPC, is Article 54 EPC. Namely, "an invention can be patented only if it is new. An invention is...

public can be severe." "Current patent policy, which withholds patent protection from drugs because they lack novelty or are obvious, therefore poses...

apply, or only partially applies. For the grace period in patent law, see novelty (patent). In games (video and real life), a grace period is the time...

new use by obtaining a patent for it. However, the compound itself is known and thus could not be patented; it would lack novelty under Article 54 EPC (before...

certain types of inventions should be denied patent protection. Together with criteria such as novelty, inventive step or nonobviousness, utility (or...

A software patent is a patent on a piece of software, such as a computer program, libraries, user interface, or algorithm. A patent is a set of exclusionary...

generally, to help assessing whether patent applications and inventions meet the requirements of patent law, such as novelty, inventive step or non-obviousness...

A patent is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited...

time for obviousness or lack of novelty. Patents have not always contained claims. In many European countries, patents did not contain claims until the...

the patent were the same as Samsung's design meant that Samsung infringed the Apple design patent. Design patents are subject to both the novelty and...

Patent infringement is an unauthorized act of - for example - making, using, offering for sale, selling, or importing for these purposes a patented product...

The Substantive Patent Law Treaty (SPLT) is a proposed international patent law treaty aimed at harmonizing substantive points of patent law. In contrast...

Trilateral Patent Offices, or simply the Trilateral Offices, are the European Patent Office (EPO), the Japan Patent Office (JPO) and the United States Patent and...

prior to the patent filing. (a) Novelty; Prior Art.— A person shall be entitled to a patent unless— (1) the claimed invention was patented, described in...

issued a statement denying him a new patent on the grounds that his invention simply was not a novelty. His patent claim was for: "a twisted fence wire...

European Patent Organisation and providing an autonomous legal system according to which European patents are granted. The term European patent is used...

pending. A patent is "allowed" when the patent office examiners have determined that the patent application meets the necessary criteria of novelty, non-obviousness...

legal requirements for granting of a patent. A claimed invention must meet patentability requirements of novelty, inventive step or non-obviousness, industrial...

A patent application is a request pending at a patent office for the grant of a patent for an invention described in the patent specification and a set...

permanently jeopardize the patentability in non-U.S. countries having strict requirements on "complete or absolute novelty". In other cases the provisional...

machines made use of technology protected by United States patents assigned to Mills Novelty Company, including number 1,869,616. In 1940, the Mills company...

a patent to be valid in Canada, the invention claimed therein needs to be new and inventive. In patent law, these requirements are known as novelty and...

of patents and patent law is generally considered to have started with the Venetian Statute of 1474. There is some evidence that some form of patent rights...