A condition required for patents to be granted, and for designs to be registrable; an invention or design must not have been made public, anywhere in the world, before the filing date (or priority date)(FR:Nouveauté, IT:Novità)
Condition foreseen by the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV) in its convention as well as by the European Union in its Regulation (EC) 2100/94 on Community plant variety rights in order to grant a breeder's right. A plant variety will be new if, at the date of the filing of the application for a breeder's right, propagating or harvested material of the variety has not been sold or otherwise disposed of to others, by or with the consent of the breeder, for purposes of exploitation of the variety. This novelty requirement does not relate to the condition of novelty foreseen for patents and designs. (FR:Nouveauté (Droits d'obtenteur de variétés), IT:Novità (diritti dei costituenti di varietà vegetali) )
An invention or design is novel if it has not been publicly disclosed, whether in a document (such as an earlier patent) or by use, anywhere in the world before a patent application is filed. For a patent application to be granted, the invention claimed must be novel. Before filing a patent or registered design application, it is essential to ensure that there is no non-confidential disclosure, which would render a patent invalid because the invention is already known. See Patentability
A design is is considered new (novel) if an identical design (or one which differs only in immaterial details) has not been previously published prior to the date of filing or if a priority date is claimed the date of priority.
Requirement of patentability. It exists when an invention was not made publicly available (generally anywhere in the world) before the date of application of the patent.
The concept that the claims defining an invention in a patent application must be totally new. Most patent offices define this as not being revealed or publicly available anywhere in the world before the priority date but in the USA novelty is normally determined by the date of invention.
The concept that the claims must be totally new. The invention must never have been made public in any way, anywhere, before the date on which the application for a patent is filed. In the U.S. this is determined by the date of invention.
An element of patentability, requiring that a patentable invention be new compared to existing knowledge in the public domain.
Novelty is a requirement for patentability and for design registration. The invention in the case of a patent or the design in the case of design registration must not from part of the state of the art. The state of the art comprises everything made available to the public anywhere in the world, by means of written or oral description, by use or any other way, before the filing of the patent application or design application.
One of the conditions that an invention must meet in order to be patentable. Novelty is present if no single piece of prior art discloses every element of the claimed invention.
Another element of patentability (qv). An invention - if it is to be called that - must have (a) novelty to generate IP and (b) an inventive step (qv) for commercial prospects.
Fact of not having published or disclosed an invention or design: necessary to obtain patent or registered design protection.
A requirement for patentability. An invention must not have been known or available to the public before the priority date of a patent application.
One of the main requirements for patentability. Basically, you can't patent something unless you thought it up before everybody else. See "Section 102."
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.