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Your standard paperclip has a design so perfect and so simple that it seems inevitable–and obvious. It wasn’t. The Gem paperclip is actually the last clip standing in a war over paper clip design that ...

In the patent literature, the term "prior art" is virtually synonymous with "state of the art," the standard against which any claimed improvement is necessarily judged. Normally, "state of the art" ...

If a college professor were to ask a classroom of students, and I’m talking about some of the brightest on campus, about haywire, barb wire and gem clips, how many of them would know what he/she is ...