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Subject: Published Patent applications as prior art?
Category: Business and Money > Economics
Asked by: bruno01-ga
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Posted: 28 Apr 2005 11:13 PDT
Expires: 28 May 2005 11:13 PDT
Question ID: 515444

Recently the UPTO started publishing patents 18 months after submission. 

My question is simple--do the published patent applications constitute
prior art since they are in fact published.

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Subject: Re: Published Patent applications as prior art?
From: socal-ga on 28 Apr 2005 17:14 PDT

Yes.  It is a "printed publication".  Thus, Prior Art.

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