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some assistants, but they
refused to consider someone
they viewed as unpredictable.
Albert responded to this with a letter-writing
campaign to other schools, but he kept running
into the same problem. Anyone who thought
about hiring him eventually contacted his
former professors at the Polytechnic, and Albert
would be turned down shortly thereafter.
After about two frustrating years of job
hunting, Albert was forced to accept a position
as patent clerk in the Swiss city of Bern.
WHAT’S A PATENT CLERK?
A patent clerk reviews applications for new
inventions and determines whether or not
they should be granted official patents, or
copyrights. Part of this work includes making
sure proposed inventions aren’t too close in design
and purpose to those that are already patented.
Another part is making sure the new
inventions work the way they’re
supposed to.
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