prior art
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
- (patent law) In most systems of patent law, all information that has been made available to the public in any form before a given date that might be relevant to a patent's claims of originality, and to which the patent application is compared to determine if it in fact describes a new invention.
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information that has been made available to the public — see also state of the art
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