Novelty And Inventive Step As Per Israel Patent Law
                     Novelty And Inventive Step As 
Per Israel Patent Law
  
What is a Novel Invention?
An invention is considered 
new, if not published in public, 
either in Israel or abroad, 
before the date of application
by description, in writing or in 
an appearance or by voice or 
in any other way, in such a 
way that a person skilled in 
the art can perform it 
according to the details of the 
description 
  
What is Inventive Step?
 Inventive progress is an advance that does not seem 
obvious to the person of average skill in the art on 
the basis of the information already published, 
before the date of application.
  
Israel Patent Law
 Israel Patent Law the invention 
must not have previously been 
published anywhere in the world. 
Publishing is understood in this 
context to be not only a formal 
paper but can also be a verbal 
presentation or an image that shows 
the invention. The “publication” 
does need to be sufficiently 
complete so as to allow someone 
skilled in the art to be able to build 
 the invention.  
Difference Between The Novelty 
And Inventive Step Requirements
 The Novelty requirement requires an invention to have never 
before been known to the world, whereas under the Inventive 
Step requirement, the features of the invention could have 
previously been disclosed individually, and they are now 
being combined to provide a new and significant 
improvement on the prior art.
 An example is a classic wooden pencil with an attached 
eraser. While the pencil and the eraser were known (and thus 
not novel under Section 4), the combined device could have 
been patented under Section 5 of the law as arguably being a 
non-obvious combination.
  
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