A lesson in patents, courtesy of a Real Housewives star and the creator of Spanx
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Cam - Sara Blakely wrote her own patent with a text book from Barnes & Noble when she couldn't afford a lawyer and begged mills in North Carolina to manufacture for her!
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Spanx CEO Sara Blakely gives employees 2 plane tickets and $10,000 : NPR
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Spanx's founder couldn't afford a patent attorney. So she figured out how to protect her IP herself.
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Lighthouse Point Magazine October 2016 by Point! Publishing - Issuu
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