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- A patent examiner or patent clerk is an employee, usually a civil servant, working within a patent office.
- Patent examiners review patent applications to determine whether they should become a patent.
- The work of patent examiner usually includes searching patent and scientific literature databases for prior art, and substantively examining patent applications, that is examining whether the claimed invention meets the patentability requirements such as novelty, "inventive step" or "non-obviousness", "industrial application" (or "utility") and sufficiency of disclosure.
