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Correspondence
Nature 398, 555 (15 April 1999) | doi:10.1038/19174
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As a patent lawyer, I read with interest your report on the European efforts to persuade the United States to switch to the first-to-file system for determining priority on patentable inventions1. While the first-to-file system appears to be simpler, and the norm outside the United States, it would be a mistake to abandon the American system based on 'first to invent'.
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