The one-year grace period applies to ______ law.

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Under patent law, even if an invention is otherwise new, it fails the novelty test if it has been described in a publication, sold, or put to public use more than one year before a patent application on it is filed (the one-year grace period). The characteristic of novelty indicates that something is new and different from the prior art (the previous state of knowledge in the field). The test is met when no single piece of prior art meets all of the elements of an invention's claims.

The One-Year Grace Period Applies to ______ Law