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Originally Posted by Oregon Elephant
He won't receive the patent if the real inventor can show that it was stolen from him, and the stealer would lose all credibility in every field of science and get to find a new job (which would suck as seeing to get to that point he would have to have dedicated almost all of his education to something that he could no longer work in).
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Well, I guess I'm a bit more cynical than you. It doesn't matter how much proof the original inventer has: if he doesn't have the right connections and if his lawyer isn't part of the inner circle that attends all the same cocktail parties the judge attends, he's going to lose.
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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.
"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.
"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."
The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.
"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."
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