The Syrian legislator has specified novelty in the Patent Law as one of the objective conditions to obtain the patent, where it has adopted absolute novelty, and he considered the novelty of an invention void if it became known before the date of fil
ing the application for a patent or the date of priority that is requested legally. we have also discussed the cases in which the invention becomes known but it does not lose its novelty if it became known before the date of filing the application for a patent or the date of priority that is legally requested, such as in the case of exhibiting an invention in formals exhibits, and we have also addressed a case that the Syrian law has not discussed, and it is the case of exposing the secret of the invention against the will of the inventor, and recommended adding this article: “ An invention does not lose its novelty if the exposure happens within the six months prior to filing the application or the date of priority that is legally requested, and was the result of an illegal action done by others.
