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Posted By: warshawlaw

I think you are all barking up the wrong tree. Not patent, not trademark. Copyright. One registers a copyright with the Library of Congress by sending in the item with a form and a few bucks. It is much cheaper and easier than patenting, which (if I recall the case I handled years ago) requires creation of prose and drawings showing the invention, not the item itself, discussions of prior art and presentation of a case before a patent officer.