Guidelines for Examination:PART C: CHAPTER IV PATENTABILITY, 7. Novelty, 7.3 Relevant date of a prior document

Guidelines for Examination
PART C
CHAPTER IV PATENTABILITY
7. Novelty
7.3 Relevant date of a prior document

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PART C
CHAPTER IV PATENTABILITY
7. Novelty

7.2 Implicit features or well-known equivalents

7.3a Enabling disclosure of a prior document

7.3	Relevant date of a prior document

In determining novelty, a prior document should be read as it would have been read by a person skilled in the art on the relevant date of the document. By "relevant" date is meant the publication date in the case of a previously published document and the date of filing (or priority date, where appropriate) in the case of a document according to Art. 54(3) (see IV, 6.1).