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The highest level of development, as of a device, technique, or scientific field, achieved at a particular time: “Forty or fifty years ago the state of the art in radio was represented by crackling noises coming from a console of . . . Aztec-temple shape” (New Yorker).
stateoftheart state'-of-the-art' (stāt'əv-THē-ärt') adj.
The highest level of development, very up-to-date, as in This new television set reflects the state of the art in screen technology. Despite including the word art, this term originated in technology, and its first recorded use appears in a 1910 book on the gas turbine. Today it is often used adjectivally, as in
This is a state-of-the-art camera, and sometimes very loosely, as in That movie is state-of-the-art Woody Allen.
The noun has one meaning:
Meaning #1:
the highest degree of development of an art or technique at a particular time
The state of the art is the highest level of development, as of a device, technique, or scientific field, achieved at a
particular time.
The phrase "state of the art" should be hyphenated when it is used as an adjective, e.g.:
but not when used as a noun, as in the following sentence:
Cutting edge as a synonym of the term can be used as a noun.
The earliest known usage of the term "state of the art" dates back to 1910 from an engineering manual by H.H. Suplee titled Gas Turbine. [dubious ] It reads, "In the present state of the art this is all that can be done."
In the context of the European and Australian patent law, the term "state of the art" is a concept used in the process of assessing and asserting novelty and inventive step, [1] and is a synonym of the expression "prior art". In the European Patent Convention (EPC), "[the] state of the art shall be held to comprise everything made available to the public by means of a written or oral description, by use, or in any other way, before the date of filing of the European patent application" according to Article 54(2) EPC. Due account should be taken of Article 54(3) EPC as well, but merely for the examination of novelty.
The expression "background art" is also used in certain legal provisions, such as Rule 27 EPC, and has the same meaning. [2]
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