The official name of Bern's bureau founded in 1888 sounded as Federal Agency of Spirit Property. The patent bureau was expert practices in various areas as well as registration of trademarks and production pieces. The prosperity of this agency is still marked in our days. When A. Einstein started working at the bureau, it was the institution of high class and did all its best to Switzerland's profit and development. The staff of the bureau consisted of intelligent persons whose work provided the country with new technical innovations and ideas. Those were the most creative years of Einstein. Expert practice gave to technical experts' such salary that was equal to university's professors' one. Those experts as well as Einstein graduated from the Zurich polytechnic school, which was known as a very prestigious institution. While studying at school Einstein had a stubborn and instable character, as his classmates remembered. He used to argue with his dean and solve all the problems by his own way. It was the time when Einstein's creative years began. The foundation of the patent bureau belongs to F. Haller, PhD; mechanic engineer graduated the Zurich polytechnic school like many of the experts who was working under hid supervision. Haller was a high educated scientist, an expert in logics, and besides a very rigorous boss. He was always concerned of the qualification of his staff, taught them to sort out the claims for an invention. He helped the famous scientist to organize his thoughts and time in those creative years. Einstein ascertained that it was Haller who had taught him to express his ideas correctly. Haller made the clerks to analyze all the suggestions very critically. He used to say "You should consider all the inventions to be false and follow the inventors' thoughts as carefully as possible." A. Einstein after leaving the bureau didn't follow Haller's instructions while doing expert practice. His motto was "try to find any fresh idea in the invention and help the author."
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