Steve Jobs was not an inventor.

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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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Yet his greatest pride was to be not just an enabler, but an inventor.

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After all, the commercially viable incandescent light bulb was the product of an entire team, not the single inventor we were taught in fifth grade.

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Trevorrow's independent comedy, Safety Not Guaranteed, featuring Mark Duplass as an eccentric inventor who is seeking to travel back in time, was shown at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival.

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Whatever Mr Prescott says, Mr Brown, who freed the Bank of England and famously married prudence, sees himself as an inventor of New Labour economics and will not lightly abandon either the economic respectability that this has earned for the government, or the personal reputation it has earned for him.

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Commissioner, an inventor with 21 inventions and several patents was not a professional so was entitled to capital gain.

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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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