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Sara Blakely purchased this book at Barnes & Noble to learn how to write her own patent after failing to find a female patent attorney, using it as a resource to write the majority of the patent herself.
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 to learn how to write her own patent after failing to find a female patent attorney, using it as a resource to write the majority of the patent herself.
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.