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Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks For Dummies

John Buchaca

Useful tips and step-by-step guidance from filing to issue to license Want to secure and exploit the intellectual property rights due you or your company? This easy-to-follow guide shows you how — helping you to evaluate your idea's commercial potential, conduct patent and trademark searches, docum...

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How I Built This with Guy Raz

Sara Blakely purchased this book at Barnes & Noble and used it as a guide to write her own patent for Spanx, after being quoted exorbitant fees by patent attorneys.

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I went to Barnes & Noble on Peachtree in Atlanta and bought a book called Patents and Trademarks and I wrote the patent and then my mom's an artist and so I asked her if she would sketch me in the pro...

— Episode: Spanx: Sara Blakely (2017)

Episode: Spanx: Sara Blakely (2017)

Sara Blakely purchased this book at Barnes & Noble and used it as a guide to write her own patent for Spanx, after being quoted exorbitant fees by patent attorneys.

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I went to Barnes & Noble on Peachtree in Atlanta and bought a book called Patents and Trademarks and I wrote the patent and then my mom's an artist and so I asked her if she would sketch me in the prototype for the patent and that is the picture in the US Patent and Trademark Office.

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