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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The first works to be digitised will range from feminist pamphlets about Queen Marie-Antoinette (1791), to the invention of the first combustion engine-driven submarine (1858), and an account of a stuffed Hippopotamus owned by the Prince of Orange (1775).
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Chile, who picked up seven red cards in qualifying, must face five-time winners Brazil on Monday without their strongest team after three key players were lost to suspension in a first half they threatened to take charge of with admirable invention before losing their heads.
But the forests began to be cleared voraciously with the invention first of safety matches and then of wood-based paper.
On the day we visit Fisk he's about to launch the first prototype test of his latest invention -- an environmentally friendly cement and building structure.
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Only those willing to take the risks of invention can own that first option.
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For anyone with an invention to sell, patent and intellectual property protection is their first priority.
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The invention of an LED goes back to the 1920s but the first LED for practical use was invented by GE scientist Nick Holonyack in 1962.
With promising results Biotectix moved into its own labs and landed its first commercial contract (with the Australian medical device maker Cochlear) to incorporate its invention in cochlear implants.
The multiple ongoing exhibitions in New York City focusing on King Tutankhamun and Egyptiana, as well as an ancillary Tut show in Denver, celebrate one of the first visible flowerings of human creativity the invention of the human, to borrow a term from critic Harold Bloom, and are worthy undertakings.
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Another problem is that first-to-file may make companies rush to put in for a patent before their invention is truly ready.
Wood said that he once attended a two-day invention session presided over by Jung, and after the first day the group went out to dinner.
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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Injuries aside, the game will have provided plenty to satisfy Capello, especially an outstanding first-half display from Gerrard and a performance of limitless energy and invention from Rooney.
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