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Revision as of 22:38, 22 October 2010

The state of the art, in patent law, is the set of published ideas for a given domain. Any idea that is part of the state of the art is called a piece of prior art.

What can be used as prior art?

Some examples:

  • ads
  • marketing materials
  • manuals
  • conference proceedings discussing the idea
  • source code
  • ...many other things...

Invalidating a patent

Two approaches are possible with prior art:

  1. Using just prior art: show that someone else previously did what's described in some or all of the claims
  2. Combining prior art with obviousness: show that someone previously did something similar, and argue that in light of this new information about what the state of the art was, the claims of the patent are too obvious

Related pages on ESP Wiki

External links