novelty
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 383 U.S. 39 - United States v. Adams · 1966Most cited · 1,572 citing opinions
An inoperable invention or one which fails to achieve its intended result does not negative novelty
How often courts cite the case defining “novelty”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “novelty” — 1,557 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.