Which legal principle, established by the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property in 1883, allows an applicant to rely on the date of a patent application filed in one member…

Article 4 of the Paris Convention gives the right of priority: an application filed in another member country within 12 months (for patents) is treated as if filed on the date of the first application. First-to-file decides between rival applicants, national exhaustion concerns resale after the first sale, and the right of attribution is a moral right of authors.