Core-based materials definition

All of this preliminary material sets the stage for the crux of our present inquiry, What is obvious This is a key inquiry for patent law and one of the most crucial yet challenging concepts to understand because its meaning goes to the core of the definition of inventiveness. We have seen and reviewed novelty and should well understand its predicates. Unlike novelty, however, obviousness is a much more open-ended inquiry. Whereas novelty instructed us that we were limited to a single reference, obviousness can be based on information separately incorporated from... 

However, it is possible that some of these technical terms will not be entirely familiar to the nonprofessional readers of this encyclopedia. Therefore, in the interest of greater understanding for those readers - and also for the possible benefit of professional readers consulting material outside their own area of expertise - the Glossary defines a selected group of several hundred terms. These terms occur frequently within a variety of articles in the encyclopedia and thus can be said to represent a core vocabulary of the field of toxicology. The definitions are presented in a concise, accessible format, based on the use of the term in the context of the encyclopedia. 

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