novelty

It seems like once the novelty wears off, it becomes bland more than anything else.

I'm starting to feel like no-javascript-guy is some type of HN novelty account.

A lack of novelty can be established by any one piece of prior art that discloses each of the key elements of claimed invention.

There is novelty in being able to synthesize new systems from known elements which frankly I don't believe gets quite the credit it deserves.

I hope "your generation" at some point realizes that the challenges facing Uber don't stem from "opposition to the new." People aren't shocked and confused by the sheer novelty and innovation of being able to call a cab with a phone.

It's that the government thinks companies shouldn't be able to profit from selling them as direct-to-consumer toys and novelty items.

TL;DR: "Most reexamination requests rely on a finding of obviousness, which is a far more subject[ive] standard than demonstrating a lack of novelty.

In each of these cases Google has identified not one, but five separate pieces of prior art that each alone demonstrates a lack of novelty in the critical Lodsys claims.

Not to mention the novelty factor wore off quickly and self-serve sales plummeted, but I digress...You also mention 4chan "heavily relies on the freemium model," and reference our 4chan Passes.

Bitcoin: a currency for which capability to buy pizza is noteworthy, required custom programming, comes with a 10% novelty tax, and is incapable of maintaining a single price for 24 hours.

Teaching iterative constructs first has one big advantage: while the students are grappling with the novelty of describing a process in the form of code, at least they are describing familiar processes they understand.