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by transitorykris 120 days ago
Surprised it’s not mentioned, but important for the sake of patents too
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> Surprised it’s not mentioned, but important for the sake of patents too

Is this still true these days? I thought the US moved to first-to-file in the early 2010s.

It can still be important as a record of who was involved in the invention. Every inventor, no more or less, needs to be credited.