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Originally posted by Scootermuze
... Then... you could become a lawyer, join a lawyer club...
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Ohoh, you're not aware of rule number one and two of that club are you?
Seriously, prior art is most likely not to be found in fiction. The only way I could see that being possible would be for a story line to actually include the specifics of a process in enough detail that someone could've actually implemented the invention.
In patents, the specifics are called "claims" and they are the most important part, much more so than the description of what the invention does. That's because these "claims" detail exactly how the invention obtains it's results.
When you examine a patent, the claims are the numbered items within it. You must become familiar with them because for prior art to exist, someone has to have published the claims before the application for the patent was made.
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