Novelty means that before the filing date, no identical invention or utility model has been published in publications at home and abroad, used in China or known to the public in other ways, and no identical invention or utility model has been applied to the Patent Office by others and recorded in the patent application documents published after the filing date.
From this definition, we can see that the time standard of novelty is divided by the date of filing, and all technologies that have been published before the date of filing,
That is, the existing technology does not have novelty; Any technology that is not disclosed before the filing date is novel.