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Novelty (patent)

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624:. That is, if the inventor or the successor in title publishes the invention, an application can still be validly filed which will be considered novel despite the publication, provided that the filing is made during the grace period following the publication. The grace period is usually 6 or 12 months. In China, the grace period is 6 months. In Russia, the grace period is 6 months (Civil Code part IV, article 1350 (3)). In US, the grace period is 12 months ("Leahy-Smith America Invents Act") 656: 539: 464: 450:
invention is "new". A prior art search may for instance be performed using a keyword search of large patent databases, scientific papers and publications, and on any web search engine. However, it is impossible to guarantee the novelty of an invention, even once a patent has been granted, since some little known publication may have disclosed the claimed invention.
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A conceptual problem may arise in applying the point of novelty method of analysis when the elements at the point of novelty cooperate or co-act with the conventional elements or part of them in a novel way. The novel co-action is properly considered part of the point of novelty of the invention and
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that are conventional or known from those elements or limitations that are novel, i.e. not conventional or known. That part of the invention may also be termed its "point of departure from the prior art". The term is also applied to a patentability test – the point of novelty test – which determines
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A patent grants an inventor a legally enforceable monopoly over their invention. This means that others can be legally restrained from exploiting the invention. It is not the intention of the patent system to deny anyone what they have been free to do before someone claims an invention. For example,
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Present-day American patent law still acknowledges that some parts of a patent claim may constitute "insignificant post-solution activity". This is regarded as a kind of "point of novelty" approach, disallowed under present (Federal Circuit) patent law. To combat infringement, truly "insignificant"
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members, any act that makes an invention available to the public, no matter where in the world, before the filing date or priority date has the effect of barring the invention from being patented. Examples of acts that can make an invention available to the public are written publications, sales,
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The section does not restrict disclosure to prior patents, giving a broad description of what includes prior disclosure; so long as the subject-matter was disclosed “in such manner that the subject-matter became available to the public”, the subject-matter is barred from being patented. This may
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one cannot patent the wheel, as that would exclude others from doing what they had previously been free to do. The legal test is that the invention must be something new, i.e. it must possess "novelty". The invention of the wheel is not new, because the wheel already forms part of the prior art.
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is usually performed, the term "art" referring to the relevant technical field. A prior art search is generally performed with a view to proving that the invention is "not new" or old. No search can possibly cover every single publication or use on earth, and therefore cannot prove that an
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See In re Gulack, 703 F.2d 1381, 1385 n.8 (Fed. Cir. 1983) ("A printed matter rejection is based on case law antedating the 1952 patent act, employing a point of novelty approach. The 1952 act legislatively revised that approach through its requirement that the claim be viewed as a whole in
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elements are routinely kept out of patent claims. The purpose of the patent-eligibility doctrine concerning insignificant post-solution activity, however, is that adding such limitations to a claim does not involve adding an "inventive concept" to the otherwise ineligible underlying idea.
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referred to "anticipation" as "convenient" terminology to cover "that part of the state of art which is inconsistent with the invention being new". Anticipation and infringement are two sides of the same coin: that which anticipates earlier in time would infringe later in time.
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The "contribution approach" in European patent law is similar to the American "point of novelty" approach. It is supposed to be invalid, but it is still being applied under various guises in order to avoid counter-intuitive results.
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such as "the improvement comprising", which is followed by a recitation of the element or elements constituting the point of novelty, such as "said nozzle having a fluted opening at a distal end thereof".
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Dicta on Adrenalin(e): Myriad Problems with Learned Hand's Product-of-Nature Pronouncements in Parke-Davis v. Mulford. 2011. Journal of Patent and Trademark Office Society. 93/4, 363-99. J.M. Harkness
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include prior patents, publications or the invention itself being put on display. Disclosures in a private document, such as an internal memo that is not available to the public, do not count.
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The Isolation and Purification Exception to the General Unpatentability of Products of Nature. 2002. Columbia Science and Technology Law Review. 4/. R.S. Gipstein. doi: 10.7916/stlr.v4i0.3626
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The Federal Circuit has at times criticized use of the point of novelty test in obviousness analysis, but the Supreme Court has continued to use a point of novelty test for obviousness. In
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can be patented in its pure form. This judicial tradition, allowing patenting of isolated natural products in the US, continued for over 100 years. Another notable example of it was
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Myriad and its implications for patent protection of isolated natural products in the United States. 2014. Chin Med. 9/17. A.Y. Wong, A.W. Chan. doi: 10.1186/1749-8546-9-17.
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A prior art reference must not only disclose every feature of a claim, but must also disclose the features arranged or combined in the same way as the claim.
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formerly used the point of novelty test for design patents as the basis of a patent infringement analysis, but the court recently abandoned that test in
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28.2 (1) The subject-matter defined by a claim in an application for a patent in Canada (the “pending application”) must not have been disclosed
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of the limitations of the claims, including the printed matter limitations, in determining whether the invention would have been obvious.").
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appears simple and self-explanatory, this view is very far from reality. Some of the most contentious questions of novelty comprise:
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if the invention was previously invented in the U.S. by another, who has not abandoned, suppressed, or concealed the invention, or
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refers to advance use or disclosure of an otherwise-patentable invention, thereby undermining its novelty. The United Kingdom's
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Local novelty only regards publications, uses or sales that have taken place within that jurisdiction to be novelty destroying.
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See Sakraida v. Ag Pro, Inc., 425 U.S. 273 (1976); Anderson’s-Black Rock, Inc. v. Pavement Salvage Co., 396 U.S. 57 (1969).
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if the invention was described in a patent application filed by another, where the application later issues as a US patent.
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David Vaver, Intellectual Property Law: Copyright Patents Trade-Marks, 2d ed (Toronto: Irwin Law Inc., 2011) at 321.
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convey information so that a person grappling with the same problem must be able to say "that gives me what I wish";
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having the invention published in a fixed medium (such as in a patent, patent application, or journal article); or
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in the absence of explicit directions, teach an "inevitable result" which "can only be proved by experiments"; and
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In the United States the four most common ways in which an inventor will be barred under Section 102 are:
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give information which for the purpose of practical utility is equal to that given by the subject patent;
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which, among other things, are new. The central legal provision governing the novelty under the EPC is
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occurs when one prior art reference or event discloses all the features of a claim and enables one of
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The current test now requires that only 1 of the 8 tests be fulfilled in order to find anticipation.
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is anticipated (i.e. not new) and therefore not patentable if it was known to the public before the
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give information to a person of ordinary knowledge so that he must at once perceive the invention;
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Patenting New Uses for Old Inventions. 2020. Vanderbilt Law Rev. 73/2, 479-534. S.B. Seymore.
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The practice of patenting isolated products of nature came to an end only in 2013, when the
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Another controversial issue in novelty analysis is whether a discovery and isolation of a
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In some countries, such as the Australia, Canada, China, Japan, Russia, United States, a
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Tye-Sil Corp. v. Diversified Products Corp. (1991), 35 CPR (3d) 350 at 361, 362 (FCA)
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to make and use the invention. The term "features" in this context refers to the
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In Canada, the requirements for novelty are codified under section 28.2 of the
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is a term used in patent law to distinguish those elements or limitations in a
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patenting things, which are newly discovered in (or isolated from) nature (see
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by making the invention known or allowing the public to use the invention; or
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give directions which will inevitably result in something within the claims;
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To assess the novelty of an invention, a search through what is called the
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The grace period should not be confused with the priority year defined by
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Legal Research Service for the Boards of Appeal, European Patent Office,
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MoneyIN, Inc. v. VeriSign, Inc., 545 F.3d 1359, 1371 (Fed. Cir. 2008)
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satisfy all these tests in a single document without making a mosaic.
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inventor's own prior disclosures (only a few countries provide a
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Reeves Brothers Inc. v. Toronto Quilting & Embroidery Ltd.
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deal primarily with the United States and do not represent a
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Grace Period and Invention Law in Europe and Selected States
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Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc.
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Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc.
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Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals Inc. v H N Norton & Co Ltd
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Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property
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public oral disclosures and public demonstrations or use.
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World Intellectual Property Organization (June 2023).
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United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
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There is an eight-pronged test to determine whether
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Peters v. Active Mfg. Co., 129 U.S. 530, 537 (1889)
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Index

Anticipation (patent law)
Patent
Patent claim
History
Economics
Criticism
Application
Prosecution
Opposition
Valuation
Licensing
Infringement
Patentable subject matter
Inventorship
Novelty
Inventive step and non-obviousness
Industrial applicability
Utility
Person skilled in the art
Prior art
Sufficiency of disclosure
Unity of invention
Patent Cooperation Treaty
Australia
Canada
China
Europe
Germany
Japan
Netherlands

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