Industrial Property Law
Auteur : Louis Vogel
Sommaire de l’ouvrage
Introduction
Part 1: Administrative and professional organization
Part 2: Trademarks, service marks and other distinctive signs
Title 1: Scope of Application
Chapter 1: Novelty
Section 1: Person skilled in the art
Section 3: Obviousness
Section 4: Proof
Chapter 3: Industrial application
Title 3: Obtaining the patent
Title 4: Rights attached to the patent
Title 5: Patent protection
Part 4: Designs
262. State of the art
1 minute de lecture
Like novelty, inventive step is measured in terms of the state of the art. The concept encompasses the body of relevant knowledge and information in a given technical field that has been made available to the public prior to the filing date of the patent application or the priority date. However, contrary to the assessment of novelty, French patent applications, or European or international paten …