anticipated

anticipated, adj. Patents. (Of a patent claim) having all the same elements of a prior-art reference. • If a claim is anticipated by a previous invention or publication, that claim is not allowable; if a patent has already been issued, it will be declared invalid. — Also termed fully met.

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