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Yes - as of the 2012 AIA law the U.S. has joined the rest of the world to be a first-to-file nation. Your quiet (unpublished) work will have zero effect on their patent application or any patent that flows from it no matter how good your timestamps. Under the AIA, it is rare for a timestamped document or inventor's notebook to come into play.
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