prior art (English, noun)
expansion: prior art (uncountable)
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topics: intellectual-property
law
patent-law
glosses: In most systems of patent law, all information that has been made available to the public in any form before a given date that might be relevant to a patent's claims of originality, and to which the patent application is compared to determine if it in fact describes a new invention.
tags: uncountable
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