Today's liberal left conceives of itself as being on the side of all that is good, right and reasonable.

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And much like a Formula 1 car, Richard Mille conceives and constructs its watches as an integrated whole for optimum performance.

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Suppose, further, that an employee at Company B independently conceives the same invention in June and files for a patent in July.

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Consider, for example, the case of an employee at Company A, who conceives an invention in May, works diligently to reduce it to practice, and files the corresponding patent application in August.

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