Nothing revolutionary here, just a novel application of an old technology.
This suggests their potential for exciting, novel applications.
Geer solved the display problem with the novel application of optics.
In modern times novel applications and improvements have been explored with modest commercial success.
Noteworthy also is finding a novel application for an otherwise old drug.
It might help to do so in special or novel applications.
Judge Cedarbaum called the charge "unquestionably a novel application of the securities laws."
His approach is based on the descriptive geometry of the 17th century, but he shows a novel application by using oblique projections.
The fraud charge, as even the presiding judge has pointed out, is a particularly novel application of securities law.
Securities lawyers said the securities fraud charge was a novel application of the law.