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  2. State of the art - Wikipedia

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    In the context of European and Australian patent law, the term "state of the art" is a concept used in the process of assessing and asserting novelty and inventive step, [9] and is a synonym of the expression "prior art". [10] In the European Patent Convention (EPC), " [t]he state of the art shall be held to comprise everything made available ...

  3. Prior art - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Prior art (also known as state of the art[1] or background art[2]) is a concept in patent law used to determine the patentability of an invention, in particular whether an invention meets the novelty and the inventive step or non-obviousness criteria for patentability. In most systems of patent law, [3] prior art is generally defined as ...

  4. Novelty under the European Patent Convention - Wikipedia

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    The state of the art is essentially defined in Article 54(2) EPC.Namely: The state of the art shall be held to comprise everything made available to the public by means of a written or oral description, by use, or in any other way, before the date of filing of the European patent application.

  5. State (printmaking) - Wikipedia

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    In the first state the background is plain; the landscape of state II was probably added some years later. In printmaking, a state is a different form of a print, caused by a deliberate and permanent change to a matrix such as a copper plate (for engravings etc.) or woodblock (for woodcut). Artists often take prints from a plate (or block, etc ...

  6. History of art - Wikipedia

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    The history of art focuses on objects made by humans for any number of spiritual, narrative, philosophical, symbolic, conceptual, documentary, decorative, and even functional and other purposes, but with a primary emphasis on its aesthetic visual form. Visual art can be classified in diverse ways, such as separating fine arts from applied arts ...

  7. State of the Union - Wikipedia

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    Since Franklin Roosevelt, the State of the Union is given typically each January before a joint session of the United States Congress and is held in the House of Representatives chamber of the United States Capitol. Newly inaugurated presidents generally deliver an address to Congress in February of the first year of their term, but this speech ...

  8. Art - Wikipedia

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    Theatre, dance, and other performing arts, as well as literature, music, film and other media such as interactive media, are included in a broader definition of the arts. [1][8] Until the 17th century, art referred to any skill or mastery and was not differentiated from crafts or sciences.

  9. The arts - Wikipedia

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    The arts. The arts or creative arts are a vast range of human practices of creative expression, storytelling, and cultural participation. The arts encompass diverse and plural modes of thinking, doing, and being in an extensive range of media. Both dynamic and a characteristically constant feature of human life have developed into stylized and ...