The third part introduces the four basic concepts involving novelty judgment such as prior art, conflicting applications, cited relevant documents and substitution to same object.

第三部分介绍新颖性判断中涉及到的四个基本概念：现有技术、抵触申请、对比文件和等同替换。

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In the equivalent of two and a half workdays, that examiner must analyze the application and then search through all the existing documents in that field to find any instances of prior art (see " In the path of an avalanche").

FORBES: The smother of invention