Included in the changes are the prior disclosure of executive stock sales and the uniform treatment of stock options as expenses.

For instance, the prior disclosure of the subset "vegetables" takes away the novelty of the wider set "fruits and plants".

Long and arduous experimentation, for example, would indicate that the prior disclosure did not include enough information for a defence of anticipation to succeed.

The regulations, despite the F.E.C.'s explanation of the provision, appear to still require prior disclosure of electioneering communications that have not yet aired.

School officials were unable to come up with documents yesterday that might have demonstrated a prior disclosure of the reserve fund.

Ignorance regarding prior disclosure is not an excuse.

Where there has been prior disclosure of the same subject-matter, the invention will be deemed to be not novel, the prior disclosure being anticipatory of the invention.

However, the prior disclosure must be sufficiently detailed to be anticipatory.

This suggests that consent will only operate as a defense-in all but the most exceptional of cases-where there has already been prior disclosure of known HIV-positive status.

A German court ruled the patent not valid because of prior disclosure in speeches by Wilbur Wright in 1901 and Octave Chanute in 1903.