[1]http://icopiedyou.com/kenneth-udut-has-some-unique-ideas.../
   You're correct. Approximately 25 years and 3 months and 10 days.
   Might be someone earlier than that, as presumably he was
   speaking about things that occurred during the quarter he was
   marking, but I have no evidence I can present. Therefore, this
   is as close as I can get to verifying your hypothesis. Also,
   Matt Bailey To further confirm your hypothesis,
   [2]http://icopiedyou.com/i-never-stopped-being-creative-but.../
   I had gotten as far as I could to patent a novel idea back in
   1999/2000 that was a very specific car backup system.

   When I started working on it, I had found no patents even close
   to it.

   By the time I had something worth submitting to a patent
   attorney for review, some chinese dude had "submitted for
   review" six months before me. His patent wasn't even close to
   being accepted but by reading what he did, seeing it line up one
   by one by one, matching every single idea I had...

   ... I knew I was not original. Took about a week to get over the
   cognitive dissonance, frankly. But thankfully, I never spent a
   dime on it, just some spare time during breaks at work when I
   could.

   So, you are correct in my specific case. You should feel proud.
   You actually got one right grin emoticon [might even be the
   second thing even!] Kudos So your observation of my "not
   originalness" is about 15 years too late to be a surprise to me
   Matt Bailey But you didn't know me then, so your lateness in
   entering the Timestream by way of parents and our intersecting
   in this forum at this time with me is not your fault.

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   2. http://icopiedyou.com/i-never-stopped-being-creative-but-searching-for-the-original-in-me-has-become-a-never-ending-quest/