Its true. At least since 2013 rules change https://www.uspto.gov/sites/default/files/aia_implementation/fitf_comprehensive_training_prior_art_under_aia.pdf

USPTO changed to first to file in 2013. I can onky speak to US for this change, as that’s where I am filing my inventions.

Since we are talking about US corps. I focused on US law.

And yes. You can scoop someone else’s water if you file before them these days.

If your company wants to keep its IP. It should be pusing you to file ASAP.

https://www.uspto.gov/sites/default/files/aia_implementation/fitf_comprehensive_training_prior_art_under_aia.pdf

They can be both

Not how modern patents work. Its first to file now…prior art only works if there are simultaneous applications.

So desperate to propagandize the youth.