The first step in seeking patent protection is to find out if the invention is patentable. The first step to patenting has two connected parts. A prior art search, and a patentability evaluation.
Tag: Patent Novelty Opinion
A patent novelty opinion is a determination of whether the invention in question has prior art that discloses the invention. In other words is the patent actually new.
A novelty opinion is sometimes also called a patentability opinion. But the novelty opinion is actually only a part of the patentability opinion.
Novelty is required for the claims in a patent application to be patentable. The lack of novelty is likely to result in a patent examiner rejecting the claims that are not new according to the prior art.