In other words, the first inventor to file an application for an invention gets the patent, not the first person to invent something.
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Making the first inventor to file an application the owner.
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Our tradition ranges from Hiram S. Maxim, inventor of the first fully automatic machine gun, who was born in 1840 in Sangerville, Maine, to the renowned Bath Iron Works, which produces the world's most advanced surface warships.
The inventor of the first truly high performance small portable Bluetooth speaker in 2008 with their little foxL (TIME Magazine's "Top Ten Gadget of the Year") and supplier of audio technology to the top-selling Jambox, Soundmatters created the thin DASH7 with characteristically wide bandwidth, remarkable bass, clear open highs, and loud sound (like earlier foxLs), but with 40% less internal size than the already tiny foxLv2.
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About the time Henry Ford built his first car, the quadricycle, in 1896, eccentric Japanese inventor Sakichi Toyoda, 29, invented his first--weaving loom.
However, in many other countries, the patent is awarded to the inventor who files the first patent application.
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Under first-to-file, an inventor who does not take prompt action to protect his or her invention faces a higher risk that a later inventor will end up holding the associated U.S. patent rights.
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It was that very compulsion that inspired 16th century inventor William Lee to invent the first knitting machine.
Time Warner Cable is joining with the Coalition for Science After School and FIRST Robotics -- the program created by inventor Dean Kamen, which gave us the "Cougar Cannon" -- to connect one million students with fun after-school activities, like robotics competitions.
Ralph Baer is an engineer and inventor, and the creator of the first videogame console, which was marketed as the Magnavox Odyssey.
Many different approaches to record sound with magnetic recording for were developed over the years since the first demonstration of magnetic recording on steel wires by Danish inventor, Vladimir Poulsen, sometime between 1893 and 1898.
While many think of Ford as the inventor of the automobile, he was certainly not the first to assemble a gas-powered car.
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On its website, PhoneTel says Henderson became the apprentice of Japanese inventor Dr. Kazuo Hashimoto in 1993, credited with producing the first telephone answering machine.
According to an ancient Greek legend, the first saw was made by a boy named Perdix, who was nephew of the famous inventor Daedalus.
Long before the current era of computers, the inventor Blaise Pascal designed a mechanical calculator in 1642 -- regarded by many as the first decisive step toward modern microprocessors.
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Cached away for over a century, the world's first color moving pictures have been shown for the first time yesterday, according to the National Media Museum in the UK. The celluloid, shot by inventor Edward Raymond Turner in 1899, was actually in black and white and it was only through a curator's research that its colorful significance was also unearthed.
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Now, far exceeding its inventor's original estimates, the RPi is set to sell as a million units within its first year of availability.
As she accepted the Intellectual Property Owner's Association 's 27th Annual Inventor of the Year award on June 28 for her work in tissue engineering--she is the first individual woman to win the award--her Donna Reed-style hair and her concerned expression made her look like a doctor about to apply a Band-Aid.
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