New answers tagged intellectual-property
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First, public demonstration that keeps the invention hidden -
In most of the world the focus is on actual disclosure and a demonstration that didn’t expose the claimed invention would not break novelty.
It is more complicated in the US. Patent law changed with the passage of the AIA in 2012. Pre-AIA there was case law that made it clearly prior art to ...
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