Blog 7: What is Prior Art and where is it found for a Prior Art Search of an Invention

Hello everyone, 

As we have talked about what obviousness is on previous blog post,
I would like to thoroughly go through what prior art is and how it is defined, as obviousness is a picky and difficult subject to define. This video will cover the definition of prior art and there are several examples that will help you guys to easily understand what prior art is: 

Prior art is an information that is already available to the public before a given date that might be relevant to a patent's claims of originality. Prior art can be on books, internet, patents and published patent applications. 

Well...then what is prior art search that is covered in this video?

Prior art search is "an attempt to find invention in all known books and publications in all magazines that are in all libraries, patent documents, and  all patent offices worldwide." 

The goal of prior art search is to find all published information that are publicly available anywhere in the entire world.