Lawyers sometimes are simply crooks. Just like any other crook they take advantage of opportunities to steal from others. Our crooked lawyer in this case worked as a patent lawyer for a big company on the companies patents. He was an employee of the company working full time for just that one client, his employer.
A patent lawyer can and should do research both before and after applying for a patent of other patents that are related. For example research into other patents to see if what their client wants to patent is truly something new. One enterprising crook who is of course a lawyer (well at this point he and his wife are alleged crooks as the case has not gone to trial) with his wife created a fake patent research company. Our lawyer behaving badly sent invoices from his fake patent research firm to his employer, who of course made the payments. The charges were on average between $30,000 and $40,000 per month. This went on for years allowing them to buy those extra toys like summer homes, boats etc. The total alleged stolen was $5,000,000.
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