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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...