Important Patents - Hypocrisy

Fortunately the US Patent and Trademarks office had not been established when François de La Rochefoucauld noted that "hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue."  If it had, perhaps I would not have been able to secure this patent.

Sadly, most of the hypocrites practicing in the world at large today either deny their hypocrisy or are out of reach of the US legal system.  Or both.

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