Questions tagged [novelty]

For questions relating to "novelty," as related to patents. Specifically, the bar for novelty in patents and patent applications, and interpretations thereof.

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Novelty under Patent act

Can somebody tell me differences between novelty 35 USC 102 AIA and Old act besides first to file and first to invent?
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Disproving novelty from more than one reference?

35 USC 102 (novelty) speaks of disqualifying prior art in the singular. Further, MPEP 2131.01 states that disqualifying prior art 'should' be singular except for three scenarios. Assume that none of those scenarios applies to the following…
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How Patent passes the prior art requirement

The idea of physicalizing educational concepts to create visualizations seems to be a mental process. Patent Application: http://www.google.com/patents/US20130224715 seems to fail the requirement of being novel. Was this application accepted as a…