MacVeigh Products, Inc. and Bryent Manufacturing have each independently developed a new valve for use in water softeners. Bryent filed for a patent one month before MacVeigh filed its patent application. MacVeigh can show from its scientists' records and log books that it conceived of the idea first and first created a working model of the valve. On these facts, MacVeigh is entitled to the patent, not Bryent.

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The first to invent is entitled to the patent under the U.S. system, not the first to apply.