Prior art (also known as state of the art or background art) is a concept in patent law used to determine the patentability of an invention, in particular...

of the art" is a concept used in the process of assessing and asserting novelty and inventive step, and is a synonym of the expression "prior art". In the...

In the context of patent law, using the Internet as a source of prior art when assessing whether an invention is novel and inventive (two conditions for...

explain prior art. Prior art are references that predate the date of conception of at least some of the features of a given claimed invention. Prior art can...

a forum for crowdsourcing prior art to invalidate patents. Several authors have argued for developing defensive prior art to prevent patenting based...

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...

by the closest prior art, to modify or adapt said closest prior art while taking account of that teaching [the teaching of the prior art, not just the...

reexamined in light of the new prior art. The reexamination serial number is 90/005,949. In response to the new prior art cited, Smucker's narrowed the...

consists in three steps: identifying the closest prior art, i.e. the most relevant piece of prior art or a suitable starting point for assessing inventive...

Mark William Prior (born September 7, 1980) is an American former professional baseball pitcher and current coach. A onetime top prospect of the Chicago...

that the prior art can somehow be modified (or combined) in order to teach the claimed technology. So long as the modification of the prior art (or combination...

provisional application expires, does not get published, and does not become a prior art to other patent applications. No enforceable rights can be obtained solely...

the N1, a mobile phone manufactured by the Swedish company Neonode, as prior art for Apple's design. The British court specifically ruled that Apple's...

that an important area of focus should be collaboration on searching prior art in the business method field. In November 2001, the Trilateral Offices...

The documents mentioned in the search report usually form part of the prior art. Letters are often included in search reports established for patent applications...

skill in the art; Some teaching, suggestion, or motivation in the prior art that would have led one of ordinary skill to modify the prior art reference or...

Edward Prior may refer to: Edward Gawler Prior (1853–1920), Canadian politician Edward Schroeder Prior (1857–1932), art professor at Cambridge University...

infringers far beyond the patent's actual value or contribution to the prior art, often through hardball legal tactics (frivolous litigation, vexatious...

Art the Clown is a fictional character and the primary antagonist in the Terrifier franchise and related media. Created by Damien Leone, the character...

compare it to the prior art. This involves reading and understanding a patent application, searching the prior art (including prior patent applications...

with the consent of the applicant is not considered to form part of the prior art for the assessment of novelty. The innovative step requirement is supposedly...

distinguish the invention from the existing prior art, and are compared by the patent office to the prior art before issuing a patent. Patent applications...

invention; the state of the prior art; the relative skill of those in the art; the predictability or unpredictability of the art; and the breadth of the claims...

prior art, thereby facilitating the examiner's (or an accused infringer's) arguments that the improvement is obvious in light of the admitted prior art...

complete for a skilled person in the art to be able to carry out the invention, and whether the subject-matter of a prior art disclosure is enabling. The common...

Terravision. Art+Com agreed to rename their product because SRI's came first. Because Art+Com did not include reference to SRI's TerraVision as "prior art" in...

These requests were based on said members of the public submitting new prior art that could raise "substantial new question of patentability" as to the...

no examination of the patentability of the application in view of the prior art is performed, the USPTO fee for filing a provisional patent application...

was allowed prior to June 8, 1995. Because of a large number of last-minute Requests for Continuing Examination (RCEs) due to new prior art being found...

patenting to the extent that they provide a technical contribution to the prior art. In the case of computer programs and according to the case law of the...