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Chapter I

I Did Everything Right

An inventor follows every rule the system asks for — file, pay, disclose, build — and discovers that doing it all right was the trap.

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Dispatch No. 1 — I tried to prevent this mess

I walked into the clinic, paid the co-pay, handed over a stack of exhaustively documented symptoms — and got waved out the door.

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Dispatch No. 2 — Why a PGR?

Would you pay $59,375 to be right? Not to recover damages. Just to correct an error someone else made.

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Dispatch No. 3 — A Man Who Is His Own Lawyer Has a Fool for a Client

At my core, I am an inventor. What I see happening in U.S. innovation is a tragedy.

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Dispatch No. 15 — Strapping Cell Phones to Oil Wells

A few million scrapes and gouges a year wear through the tubing. That's the failure I set out to see coming.

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