Brijesh Kumar wrote:
Granting of patents only means that a person grated a particular patent
was first to make "a claim" about the novelty of an idea or technique
as far as the patent office knows on the basis of "previous claims submitted
to it.".
At least in the US, at least sometimes, the examiners do at least some
literature search. I remember being involved in a patent where the examiner
sent it back with an article clipped from the trade press.
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