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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...
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Related pages on ESP Wiki
- How to read patents and gather prior art
- Prior-art database
- What is patentable
- First-to-file or first-to-invent
- Invalid patents remain unchallenged
- Invalidating harmful patents
External links
- How to Find Prior Art Tutorial, audio and slides, by Dan Ravicher
- State of the art, Wikipedia
- The Relevance of Invention Date in Patent Prosecution (six parts), March 2010, Patently-O
- Peer-to-patents tutorial list: Learn about prior art
- the IP.com prior-art database - check: I think this is used by the USPTO. Right?