Prior art - sustany/dvg GitHub Wiki

Loosely, all information that is publicly available before someone claims to invent something.� Patents are only allowed for things that are novel and nonobvious.� If the prior art contained a description of the supposed invention, it usually cannot be novel.� If the prior art contained enough information that the invention would have been obvious to someone of ordinary skill in the relevant field, a patent also cannot�issue.� See 35 U.S.C. �� 102(a), 103(a).