"prior art" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2022, Craig Allen Nard, The Law of Patents, Aspen Publishing",
          "text": "The significance of this language in section 102(e)(2) is that a PCT application can serve as prior art even though the applicant never files in the United States.",
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        "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."
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        "(patent law) 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."
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          "english": "the level of knowledge that was public prior to the patent",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "information that has been made available to the public — see also state of the art",
          "word": "tekniikan taso"
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          "sense": "information that has been made available to the public — see also state of the art",
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        "(patent law) 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."
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      "word": "tekniikan taso"
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