Novelty Vs. Utility
Unlike novelty, a court will not assume that an item has utility. A utility does not need to be obvious to the user. A patented item can be shown to have utility independent of patents granted for other inventions. An application for a previously patented invention that included a use the applicant had not previously contemplated has been rejected because it was not novel.
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