stackyFACTSIntellectual property theft is as old as light reflection. When Scottish inventor David Brewster patented his beautiful optical tube in 1817, the design was so simple to replicate that manufacturers immediately copied it by the thousands. He barely made a single penny off one of the most popular visual toys in human history.
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