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Fri 03 Mar 2010Patently obvious that patents are crucial
WEEK NINE: If your business idea could be replicated, you should get it protected, writes CAROLINE MADDEN
IMAGINE YOU’RE an inventor and you’ve spent years in your garden shed developing a one-wheeled motorbike or metal-detecting shoes. Finally, you come up with the perfect design and take it to a manufacturer to discuss the possibility of producing a small quantity of your product.
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