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...

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...

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

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...

three being novelty, inventive step, and industrial applicability). So an "invention" in European legal terminology is similar to "patentable subject-matter"...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

application for a patent, counts as a public prior art, which destroys the novelty of the patent application and prevents the issuance of a patent. As of May...

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...

Enforcement by patent trolls of poor quality patents has led to criticism of the patent office as well as the system itself. Patents on pharmaceuticals...

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 office is a governmental or intergovernmental organization which controls the issue of patents. In other words, "patent offices are government...

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

A biological patent is a patent on an invention in the field of biology that by law allows the patent holder to exclude others from making, using, selling...

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

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

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...