judicial notice

judicial notice. A court’s acceptance, for purposes of convenience and without requiring a party’s proof, of a well-known and indisputable fact; the court’s power to accept such a fact (the trial court took judicial notice of the fact that water freezes at 32 degrees Fahrenheit).Fed. R. Evid. 201.

— Also termed judicial cognizance; judicial knowledge. [Cases: Criminal Law 304; Evidence 1–52. C.J.S. Citizens § 23; Criminal Law § 657; Evidence §§ 8–119; Trading Stamps and Coupons§ 2.]

judicial notice of prior art. Patents. Acknowledgment by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office of all materials in its possession as prior art, for settling questions of novelty and priority. • Patents, applications, and records of interferences and appeals may be submitted by citation alone.

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