I think that's slightly mispresenting Schmidhuber's case though, because he does not just say "oh, I already had that same idea before you, I just follow up on

I think that's slightly mispresenting Schmidhuber's case though, because he does not just say "oh, I already had that same idea before you, I just follow up on it". He is usually referring to work that he or members of his group (or third-party researchers for that amatter) did, in fact, already publish.