Ex parte Haller

Laid-open patent applications are not "published" and therefore cannot constitute printed-publication prior art—a board holding in tension with the accessibility-based test for publication.

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A language model, from how the MPEP uses this case rather than from the opinion.

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high — self-reported, not calibrated against a measured error rate

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