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first inventor

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From 270 U.S. 390 - Alexander Milburn Co. v. Davis-Bournonville Co. · 1926Most cited · 721 citing opinions

one is not the first inventor if, as was the case here, somebody else has made a complete and adequate description of the thing claimed before the earliest moment to which the alleged inventor can carry his invention back

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