> I highlighted a fairly small portion of the article i believe is shoddy reporting > Jarek (and the author's) claim was the emails are important The claim is

> I highlighted a fairly small portion of the article i believe is shoddy reporting > Jarek (and the author's) claim was the emails are important The claim is: "Duda says he suggested the exact technique Google is trying to patent in a 2014 email exchange with Google engineers". Which is true. Neither Jarek nor the reporter claim that these emails were the first instance of prior art. They emphasize the emails to show that Jarek was working with Google engineers before they stole his work.