NPL Non-Patent Literature (patent)

Term: NPL Non-Patent Literature (patent)

Definition: Documents and publications that are not patents or published patent applications but are cited as references for being relevant in a patent prosecution, such as abstracts, scientific journal articles, other scholarly works (e.g., a doctoral thesis) newspapers, magazine articles, etc.

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