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Allison and Bobby work for ABC Corporation and have employment agreements that include an obligation to assign all inventions developed in the course of their

Allison and Bobby work for ABC Corporation and have employment agreements that include an obligation to assign all inventions developed in the course of their employment to ABC Corporation. Allison and Bobby do not work in the same department and do not collaborate on their projects. Allison develops an improved metal working fluid. ABC Corporation files a patent application for the improved metal working fluid on March 30, 2016 naming Allison as the sole inventor. ABC Corporation previously filed a patent application on July 25, 2014 for a metal working fluid naming Bobby as the sole inventor. The application on Bobby's metal working fluid published on January 25, 2016. Will Bobby's application be problematic prior art for Allison's application? 
 

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