non-novel

• The UK, on the other hand, looks at the contribution in assessing excluded matter, effectively ignoring any non-novel or obvious technical elements - which is more like the BPAI approach to Halligan. —  Patent Law Blog (Patently-O)
• The Court said that Roche tried to improperly shift the invalidity burden to Amgen, by arguing that Amgen was required to show that the "source" limitation "imparts novel structure to an otherwise non-novel product." —  Patent Docs
• Again, utterly non-novel. —  Slashdot
• The Statute of Monopolies cannot be held to have restricted the kinds of new processes that can today be eligible for patenting in the United States, merely because it outlawed patents on non-novel businesses in England. —  Groklaw
• Soaked with salt water or rain, it matters not; they most assuredly help to wile away many an hour, and even the usually non-novel reader is not ashamed to seize the tell-tale yellow-covered volume, and lose himself in its romance _pro tem_. —  A Girl's Ride in Iceland

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