anticipation of an invention

  • 1anticipation — an·ti·ci·pa·tion /an ˌti sə pā shən/ n: the knowledge or use of an invention in the U.S. or the patenting or describing of the invention in a publication in the U.S. or a foreign country before the discovery by a patent applicant ◇ Case law has… …

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  • 2anticipation of device — In the law of patents, the essential element of novelty of invention is lacking where the invention was anticipated. Anticipation is established where it appears that at the time of the invention in dispute there was in use a process or… …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 3anticipation — Act of doing or taking a thing before its proper time. To do, take up, or deal with, before another; to preclude or prevent by prior action; to be before in doing. In conveyancing, the act of assigning, charging, or otherwise dealing with income… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 4anticipation — Act of doing or taking a thing before its proper time. To do, take up, or deal with, before another; to preclude or prevent by prior action; to be before in doing. In conveyancing, the act of assigning, charging, or otherwise dealing with income… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 5Invention Secrecy Act — The Invention Secrecy Act of 1951, codified at UnitedStatesCode|35|181|188 (Title 35, Chapter 17 of the United States Code), is a body of United States federal law designed to prevent disclosure of new inventions and technologies that, in the… …

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  • 6anticipation —    In patent law, a situation in which an invention is too similar to an existing invention to be considered novel it has been anticipated. Novelty is one of the requirements for a patent, so anticipated inventions cannot be patented. See prior… …

    Business law dictionary

  • 7Laboratoire Européen d'Anticipation Politique/Europe2020 — Leap/Europe2020 Le Laboratoire Européen d Anticipation Politique/Europe2020 (Leap/E2020) est un think tank consacré à l’anticipation politique. Fondé en 1997 par Franck Biancheri, Leap/E2020 est un site européen d’anticipation, indépendant de… …

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  • 8Laboratoire européen d'anticipation politique/Europe2020 — Leap/Europe2020 Le Laboratoire Européen d Anticipation Politique/Europe2020 (Leap/E2020) est un think tank consacré à l’anticipation politique. Fondé en 1997 par Franck Biancheri, Leap/E2020 est un site européen d’anticipation, indépendant de… …

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  • 9Technics and Time, 1 — Technics and Time, 1: The Fault of Epimetheus (French: La technique et le temps, 1: La faute d Épiméthée ) is a book by the French philosopher Bernard Stiegler, first published by Galilée in 1994. The English translation, by George Collins and… …

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  • 10literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… …

    Universalium