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Throughout the globe, patents are granted only on inventions that are novel, as measured against the vast body of relevant prior art existing in the world. For example, a public disclosure, use, or sale of, or an offer to sell, a product anywhere in the world by you or someone else, which product embodies your “new” technology prior to the home country filing date of your patent application, is considered prior art in many industrialized countries and would bar you from obtaining a patent. In the United States, an inventor has a 1‐year grace period to file a patent application after a public disclosure of the invention. These and other limitations on novelty will be covered in more detail in Chapter 5.