ART

ART.abbr.ASSISTED REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGY.

art.  1.  Creative  expression,  or  the  product  of  creative  expression.  2.  An  occupation  or

business  that  requires  skill;  a  craft.  3.Patents.  A  field  of  useful  endeavor;  the  methodical

application of knowledge or skill in creating something new. [Cases: Patents    5. C.J.S. Patents §§

13–14, 16.]

analogous  art.Patents.  A  technique,  product,  application,  machine,  or   method  that  is

reasonably  related  to  the  problem  addressed  by  the  invention,  and  with  which  the  inventor  is

assumed to be familiar. — Also termed per-tinent art. See NONOBVIOUSNESS. [Cases: Patents

16(3).]

nuisance prior art.Patents. Information that appears to anticipate or obviate an invention, but

does not actually do so because the earlier described invention was neither reduced to practice nor

adequately disclosed in any documents. • Nuisance prior art does not bar a patent’s issuance, but it

may prolong the prosecution. The term does not apply to efforts that are not prior art at all, such as

descriptions of unsuccessful attempts to reduce an invention to practice, or to writings that do not

disclose real inventions or technology, such as science fiction.

pertinent art. 1. See analogous art. 2. See relevant art.

prior art.Patents. Knowledge that is publicly known, used by others, or available on the date

of  invention  to  a  person  of  ordinary  skill  in  an  art, including  what  would be  obvious  from  that

knowledge. • Prior art includes (1) information in applications for previously patented inventions;

(2) information that was published more than one year before a patent application is filed; and (3)

information  in  other  patent applications and  inventor’s  certificates  filed  more  than  a  year  before

the application is filed. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and courts analyze prior art before

deciding  the  patentability  of  a  comparable  invention.  35  USCA  §  102.  [Cases:  Patents    16(2).

C.J.S. Patents § 69.]

relevant art.Patents. Art to which one can reasonably be expected to look for a solution to the

problem  that  a  patented  device  tries  to  solve.  •  The  term  includes  not  only  knowledge  about  a

problem  in  a  particular  industry,  but  also  knowledge  accumulated  in  scientific  fields  whose

techniques  have been commonly  employed  to solve  similar  problems. —  Also  termed  pertinent

art.

4.Hist. In a seduction case, the skillful and systematic coaxing of another to engage in sexual

activity.[Blacks Law 8th]