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A comment on The Wright Brothers: Pioneers of Patent Trolling. Parent comment

Re:The Wright Brothers: Pioneers of Patent Trolling by bdowling on Saturday November 09, 2019 @10:37AM (#21492105)
> how novel it was.

There are no degrees of novelty. An invention is ether novel (new, never been done before) or it’s not.

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Re:The Wright Brothers: Pioneers of Patent Trolling by DuskStar on Saturday November 09, 2019 @11:35AM (#21492462)
Of course there's degrees of novelty. How could there not be?
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Re:The Wright Brothers: Pioneers of Patent Trolling by bdowling on Saturday November 09, 2019 @12:08PM (#21492686)
In patent law, novelty only means new (never done before). Patent novelty has nothing to do with the cleverness, inventiveness, or importance of an invention.

A patent must also be non-obvious, which is where many of the other inventive characteristics fall.

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