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	Novelty soap - Patent 4861505 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A novelty soap according to claim 2, wherein the soap bar is a transparent soap bar, the water impermeable plastic housing is made of transparent plastic and the electronic circuit includes a light emitting diode which sends forth a visible light signal when said electronic circuit is closed.
		A novelty soap according to claim 1, wherein the switch means is a reed switch which is held open in the presence of a magnetic field and closes in the absence of a magnetic field.
		A novelty soap according to claim 14, wherein the soap bar is a transparent soap bar, the water-impermeable plastic housing is made of transparent plastic and the electronic circuit includes a light emitting diode which sends forth a visible light signal when said electronic circuit is closed.
	www.freepatentsonline.com /4861505.html (3298 words)

	Novelty eyeglasses - Patent 4283127 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The present invention relates to novelty devices and in particular to new and improved pairs of novelty eyeglasses.
		Another object of the present invention is to provide a new and improved pair of novelty eyeglasses that may be worn by the user and operated to emit light therefrom either continuously or intermittently to provide a flashing effect.
		The novelty eyeglasses 10 are intended to be worn by an individual preferably in a dark or subdued light situation to create an errie effect by continuously or intermittent emission of light around the eyes.
	www.freepatentsonline.com /4283127.html (1885 words)

	Patent - Knowmore
		A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a state to a person for a fixed period of time in exchange for the regulated, public disclosure of certain details of a device, method, process or composition of matter (substance) (known as an invention) which is new, inventive and useful.
		Patent licensing agreements are effectively contracts in which the patent owner (the licensor) agrees not to sue the licensee for infringement of the licensor's patent rights.
		Typically, an application for a patent is prepared by a professional agent known as a patent attorney or patent agent, who files the application with a patent office.
	www.knowmore.org /index.php/Patent (4308 words)

	Patentlawman - Registered U.S. Patent Attorney - Low, Flat Rate Patent Services
		The issue addressed by a search is "novelty." Novelty is a concept which basically amounts to asking whether or not the exact invention described is new or novel: for example was the invention previously described in a printed publication.
		Utility Patent Patents may be granted to anyone who invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, article of manufacture, or compositions of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof.
		Prior to the expiration of that year, the provisional patent application will need to be converted to a utility patent application and filed prior to the one year anniversary of the filing date or the provisional patent will expire and the inventor will forever lose their rights to the invention.
	www.patentlawman.com /geninf.htm (3331 words)

	sociology - Patent
		A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a government to an inventor or applicant for a limited amount of time (normally maximum 20 years from the filing date, depending on extension).
		A patent application (other than a design patent) must explain how to practice (i.e., make and/or use) the invention(s) and must also include claims that particularly point out the invention(s) and define the scope of the subject matter for which exclusive rights are sought by the patent applicant.
		Typically, an application for a patent is prepared by a professional patent agent or patent attorney and filed with a patent office where it is then examined by a patent examiner for patentability.
	www.aboutsociology.com /sociology/Patent_law (3759 words)

	Patent Information in Brief (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Patents generally disclose technological information by describing the inventions in accordance with the requirements of the applicable patent law and by indicating the claimed novelty and inventiveness by reference to the existing state-of-the-art.
		Certain patent documents are published together with a search report showing a series of references found at the occasion of a documentary search made to establish in a first instance the level of novelty of the claimed invention.
		Patent documents bear several dates (date of application, priority date, date of grant) from which conclusions can be drawn as to the age of an invention and to the question of whether the inventions they describe are still under legal protection.
	www.wipo.int /patentscope/en/data/patent_information.html (1902 words)

	Patent Laws, Novelty And Other Conditions For Obtaining A Patent
		The patent law specifies the subject matter for which a patent may be obtained and the conditions for patentability.
		The patent is granted upon the new machine, manufacture, etc., as has been said, and not upon the idea or suggestion of the new machine.
		The subject matter sought to be patented must be sufficiently different from what has been used or described before so that it may be said to be unobvious to a person having ordinary skill in the area of technology related to the invention.
	www.lectlaw.com /files/inp18.htm (721 words)

	Novelty (patent) - tScholars.com (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Novelty is a patentability test, according to which an invention is not patentable if it was already known before the date of filing, or before the date of priority if a priority is claimed, of the patent application.
		This type of novelty bar is sometimes known as a relative novelty bar.
		In U.S. patent law, anticipation occurs when one prior art reference or event discloses all the features of a claim; the claim is then said to lack novelty.
	www.tscholars.com.cob-web.org:8888 /encyclopedia/Novelty_(patent) (536 words)

	OBTAINING A PATENT: Get Patent Novelty Patentability -- Patent Information, Patents, Search, and Invention Development
		The subject matter sought to be patented must be sufficiently different from what has been used or described before that it may be said to be nonobvious to a person having ordinary skill in the area of technology related to the invention.
		Patent examiners are not allowed to reject patents solely by finding your claimed elements in the prior art.
		When determining the patentability of a claimed invention which combines two known elements, the question is whether there is something in the prior art as a whole to suggest the desirability, and thus the obviousness, of making the combination.
	www.bayareaip.com /IPinfo/Patents/General_info/novelty.htm (1138 words)

	LawSci's Trade Secret and Patent Rights Page
		The scope of the patent protection is limited to the scope of the invention disclosed to the public in the patent application.
		Before an inventor applies for a patent, a novelty search should be made to check the public domain for patents or publications (prior art) that may show another person conceived the invention first.
		The invention is not patentable if the difference between the invention and prior art would have been obvious at the time of conception to a person having ordinary skill in the field of the invention.
	www.biopatent.com /ipprotct.html (623 words)

	Novelty of Inventions
		A claim that lacks novelty should be rejected, under 35§102, and should not issue in a patent.
		Patentability can be affected by, e.g., the subject matter of the claimed invention, the novelty of the claims, obviousness of the claims, enablement of the claims provided in the application, the clarity of the description in the application, and/or inequitable conduct of an applicant.
		If a novelty search finds a reference describing all three limitations, but with the reciprocating member only being described as a pendulum, your claim can be amended to avoid the reference, e.g., by amending your claim to require your reciprocating member to consist of a crank and rod (if your original application described this option).
	www.biopatent.com /novelty.html (2035 words)

	Tacky novelty item patent invention
		The present invention novelty device can be made for a very low cost by extrusion molding techniques, thereby eliminating the need for injection molding.
		The present invention also presents a novelty device with surface area so large and complex, that it is very difficult to completely contaminate the tacky surface of the device with debris.
		[0009] The novelty device is made of a plurality of individual elongated pieces arranged in a randomly tangled mass.
	www.freshpatents.com /Tacky-novelty-item-dt20060525ptan20060111015.php (1627 words)

	PATENT EXAMINATION SYSTEM IS INTELLECTUALLY CORRUPT
		This is not surprising to patent searchers, who are asked to find patent references after the research and development has been done and the patent application is being prepared (to be augmented by patent references made by the patent examiner).
		Given that the majority of patents are either not valid or should have much narrower claims, one would naively guess that the majority of independent patent claims include the Jepson phrase "the improvement comprising", which would be the intellectually honest style to use to reflect the minimal evolutionary nature of most new inventions.
		But while mechanical patents used to dominate (about 50% in the 1970s and early 1980s), and electrical patents were 20%, they are both now about equal in their percentages, reflecting the growing importance of electronics and computing and diminishing importance/value of mechanical inventions (New Economy versus Old Economy).
	www.bustpatents.com /corrupt.htm (2731 words)

	Ladas & Parry EPO Practice Guide - Novelty
		There is still relatively little case law on the question of what is meant by "made available to the public", although the burden lies on the party asserting that this has occurred to show "when", "what" and in what particular circumstances, in particular to whom, the alleged making available occurred.
		As regards prior unpublished copending applications, although their entire content is relevant to the question of determining novelty of a later filed application designating the same countries, they are not to be used as the basis of an allegation of lack of inventive height.
		For example, erroneous publication of a patent application by the Brazilian Patent Office has been held not to be an abuse of the applicants rights because there was no "abusive" state of mind on the part of the publishers.
	www.ladas.com /Patents/PatentPractice/EPOPractice/EPOPractGuide-4.html (1208 words)

	Patent Prospector: Novelty Lock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In comparing a design patent claim to the accused design to determine infringement, a court must apply “two distinct tests, both of which must be satisfied in order to find infringement: (a) the ‘ordinary observer’ test, and (b) the ‘point of novelty’ test.” Contessa Food Prods., Inc. v.
		If the combination of old elements shown in the prior art is itself sufficient to constitute a “point of novelty” of a new design, it would be the rare design that would not have a point of novelty.
		The practical effect of Lawman’s theory would be virtually to eliminate the significance of the “points of novelty” test in determining infringement of design patents, and to provide patent protection for designs that in fact involve no significant changes from the prior art.
	www.patenthawk.com /blog/archives/2006/02/novelty_lock.html (796 words)

	patfind
		Patents are issued for things that are new and that are not obvious improvements on something else that is already known.
		The European Patent Office (EPO) has a site that was re-modeled in early 2004 and that provides access to something on the order of 20 million patents (many of which have a record consisting of a number, a class, and a notation that no English title or text is available).
		A good search should retrieve 5-10 patents conceptually close to your invention, and should include a patentability report pointing out what appears to be "closest" to each significant feature of your invention.
	www.patent-faq.com /patfind.htm (672 words)

	Patent Bar Deadlines
		Inventive minds throughout the world typically know that patent protection is available for new and useful inventions.
		Acts of invention disclosure that will destroy the novelty of an invention and bar an inventor from obtaining patent protection also vary from one country to the next.
		Inventors should be warned to seek the advice of a registered patent attorney as soon as an invention is conceived.
	www.icemiller.com /enewsletter/Sept03/patent1.htm (1166 words)

	Substantive Patent Law Harmonization (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The SCP further agreed that other issues related to substantive patent law harmonization, such as first-to-file versus first-to-invent systems, 18-month publication of applications and a post-grant opposition system, would be considered at a later stage.
		At its sixth session, in November 2001, the SCP discussed revised draft provisions and agreed on an approach to establishing a seamless interface between the SPLT, the PLT and the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT).
		Further, delegations expressed different views with respect to disclosure of the origin of genetic resources and associates traditional knowledge in patent applications where the claimed invention was derived from, or based on, such genetic resources or traditional knowledge.
	www.wipo.int /patent/law/en/harmonization.htm (873 words)

	Patent Requirements (BitLaw)
		This novelty requirement states that an invention cannot be patented if certain public disclosures of the invention have been made.
		In order to make such a determination, an examiner in the patent office will normally review previous patents to find those patents which are closest to the invention in which a patent is sought.
		If all the features of the invention can be found in a single patent, the examiner will reject the patent as lacking novelty (that is, it is exactly the same as what was previously known and therefore is not new).
	www.bitlaw.com /patent/requirements.html (832 words)

	Novelty (patent) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This is known as an absolute novelty requirement.
		The standard method for discovering if a proposed invention is novel is to perform a prior art search.
		A prior art search may for instance be performed using a keyword search of patent databases.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Novelty_(patent) (457 words)

	Provisional Patents Law Library
		The advantage of a provisional patent is that it's much faster and easier to file than a standard patent application.
		A standard patent application can take months to prepare, and it can cost $5,000 or more.
		LegalZoom's Provisional Patent Law Library provides you with the resources you need to understand the functions and advantages of a provisional patent.
	www.legalzoom.com /law_library/provisional-patents/introduction.html (339 words)

	IPDE Law Firm: attorney design application application for registration of a utility design law of registered designs ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Patent law (IP law): An application for registration of an invention, registration itself and the exploitation of the protective right are connected with a considerable effort, which, however, if professionally managed during the period of protection lasting for 20 years, is of equally considerable value to the company.
		Know-how (IP law): Technical know-how can in principle be protected by means of a patent, which — in some countries, for instance the USA — would also be possible in the case of business know-how.
		Since patents or similar protective rights are published and therefore made known to the general public, and since their period of validity is limited, there has always been a need to keep secret certain technical or economic facts, i.e.
	www.english.ipde.de.cob-web.org:8888 (722 words)

	Novelty definition (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		An invention must be "novel," in order to qualify for a patent.This means that the invention should not have been available to public earlier.
		A patent is an exclusive right granted by the government (both U.S. and international) for an invention.
		It provides protection for the invention to the owner of the patent for a limited period which varies from country to country.
	www.hjventures.com.cob-web.org:8888 /patent/Novelty.html (141 words)

	I/P Updates: Design Patent Fails Point of Novelty Test - News and Information for Intellectual Property Practitioners
		Winner International, LLC (Fed. Cir., February 22, 2006) the lower court had held that infringement of U.S. Design Patent No. 357,621 (below) for "Sliding Hook Portion of a Vehicle Steering Lock Assembly" had not been shown because each of the eight alleged “points of novelty” of the patented design was disclosed in the prior art.
		The appellate court affirmed that ruling, and rejected the patentee’s contention that the combination in the patent of the many non-novel “points of novelty” itself was an additional “point of novelty.”
		patent because of a trial court’s "failure to apply the correct legal standard
	ip-updates.blogspot.com /2006/02/design-patent-fails-point-of-novelty.html (813 words)

	Patent Fees (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Prices for patent drawings vary based on the complexity of the invention and the number of figures required to fully describe the invention.
		TDI will process your patent application and represent you before the patent office as your patent application is being reviewed.
		For patent preparation and submission only, a fixed fee is available for as little as $500 depending on product complexity
	www.tekdesigns.com.cob-web.org:8888 /html/patent_fees.html (276 words)

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