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State of the art
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...
Related pages on ESP Wiki
External links
- How to Find Prior Art Tutorial, audio and slides, by Dan Ravicher
- Wikipedia article: State of the art
- The Relevance of Invention Date in Patent Prosecution (six parts), Patently-o, March 2010
