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* The United States Patent Office has a category of patent protection for intellectual property separate from 'UTILITY' patents called 'Design' patents.
* Why they've never been mentioned by a certain someone from Australia, whom lately, has taken upon himself to judge all others in all things patents, may be interpreted in any way the reader chooses.
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* In the early 1990s, when I took an interest in patent protection for my own inventions I spent a considerable amount of time in Dallas, Texas, between the Federal Building, Small Business Administration, Senior Corps of Retired Executives, Texas Christian University's workshop on grant writing in Fort Worth, and the 6th-floor of the Dallas Public Library, which is an official repository for federal documents, including all US Patents.
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* The 14-year Design patent deals with 'ornamental' intellectual property. Graphical representations of 'new', 'original', 'ornamental design', which themselves are conceptual representations of ideation.
* There are no claims, other that what is submitted, is new and original.
* Applicants are required to do a search of other design patents to do due diligence in supporting the novelty of their design.
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There are design patents for aerodynamic structures. There are no claims made for anything pertaining to aerodynamics, just ornamentation.
An example:
U.S. Design Patent 325,366 by Larry Mansberger, PO Box 21318, Carson City, Nevada 89721 Phone: 702 882- 8067 Filed July 2, 1990, date of patent April 14, 1992

The patent is two-pages. Two illustrations. CLAIM one sentence. Description of two figures
An AEROCAP.
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A take-away.
1992 was before cell-phones. Anyone with a phone was listed in the regional phonebook.
I got a phonebook for Carson City, got Larry's phone number ( I've provided), and called him.
In the course of our phone conversation he told me that he'd never built a cap. Never one as depicted. Never driven. Never tested. Never manufactured. Never sold. Never existed officially, except as ink on two pages of a federal document.
Context to a first-order reality experience for Larry Mansberger, in receiving a United States Patent for an 'idea.'
Just sayin'