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Fired L’Oreal Lawyer Says Company Patent Push Was Only Cosmetic

A lawyer formerly in charge of applying for patents in L’Oreal’s US office claims he was fired in December for refusing to make filings for dubious inventions just so the company could fill an annual quota.
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