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Re:Poland's oldest university denies Google's right to paten... by jaredklewis on Sunday August 20, 2017 @11:37PM (#15061749)
Yes it is now first to file, but that is only to determine the inventor in the case of multiple independent inventors.

As before, it is still illegal to file for a patent you did not invent without the inventor's consent.

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Re:Poland's oldest university denies Google's right to paten... by Nomentatus on Monday August 21, 2017 @03:37PM (#15067154)
You do have to claim you thought of it on your own, just a lot later, true - but that's trivial to do, and impossible to disprove.

For example, it's perfectly okay to patent an idea in use a thousand years ago, nowadays, as long as most people in that field haven't heard of it; thanks to recently truly perverse judicial decisions.

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