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Awards/Legal Rulings
Petr Táborský was convicted by a jury of second degree grand theft and theft of trade secrets. He was sentenced initially to one year of house arrest, 15 years of probation and was told to “keep his nose clean”.
After Táborský was awarded three patents by the U.S. Patent Office and the Carnahan/USF patent was rejected, the University filed additional criminal charges, contending he was violating his probation in pursuing his ownership rights.
The judge told him to sign over his first patent to USF within ten days or go to jail. Táborský refused and was sentenced to three and a half years in prison. After losing appeals, he began serving his sentence in 1995. In what was quite unusual for white collar crime, Táborský was placed on a chain gang, a punishment usually meted out only to the most dangerous criminals.
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