#novelty

#novelty

The EBA held that once a product is available for public inspection or use, it becomes part of the state of the art, and any technical information that is derivable from it, such as its measurable or observable properties, must also be considered in novelty and inventive step assessments.

The fanfic community overwhelmingly prefers familiarity, consistently choosing it over novelty, though they report greater enjoyment when reading something more novel.

Novelty remains a subjective quality in scientific research, challenging the conventional metrics that reward certain types of originality and making meaningful measurement difficult.