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Sort what can become prior art
Identify public availability events that should be treated as prior-art timing risks.
sort-buckets timeline risk-chip-row Sort each event by whether it should worry the patent team before filing. Public prior-art risk Confidential or non-public Needs fact check Recorded webinar publicly shows the control loop diagram Pilot demo under signed NDA with no recording shared Open standards submission includes message sequence details Internal engineering notebook stored in private repository Sales call mentioned the feature but nobody knows if slides were sent Customer quote says battery life improved but gives no technical detail
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