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Prior Art – Intellectual Property Outline

Intellectual Property

Prior Art


Prior art is the technology already in the field at the time the patent was filed.

It can have been publicly disclosed anywhere in the world. It does not have to be in English. It just have to be that people in the field should have been aware of it.