Talk:Originality

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This page was proposed for deletion; consensus was to keep. See Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Originality. Postdlf 21:25, 1 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Patent law

The article had the phrase following the line about U.S. patent law:

with the caveat that an invention may be original if a previous inventor had developed the same thing but not made it public, or had developed it in another country and not introduced it into the U.S.

I'm pretty sure this is not true. In the U.S., patents are granted on a "first to invent", not a "first to file", basis. --Fastfission 00:39, 7 November 2005 (UTC)