What is the difference between an inventive step test and a novelty test?
Understanding the inventive step criterion
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What is the difference between an inventive step test and a novelty test?
Understanding the inventive step criterion

Author : Laurence LOUMES

Publication date: May 10, 2021 | Lire en français

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2. What is the difference between an inventive step test and a novelty test?

The state of the art applicable to inventive step can be defined in relation to the state of the art applicable to novelty. For inventive step, interfering applications, i.e. applications filed before but published after the patent application under consideration (see Understanding the novelty criterion [FIC 1617] ), are not part of the opposable state of the art ( article L. 611-14 du CPI and

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