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The patent archive is critical to any inventor hoping to win a patent.

Nokia has said it invested more than 43 billion euros ($62 billion) to develop its patent archive.

And last week the agency added the patent archives from 1790 through 1976 to its searchable online database.

At that time, searching through patent archives was a specialized, time-consuming task.

Through the mid-1990'searchersers could look through limited patent archives by dialing a computer bulletin board service.

As the patent archives grew, the process of searching and validating a patent claim became the domain of experts whose services could be formidably expensive.

After working as an attorney in patent litigation cases, Mr. Galese said he wishes more people saw the patent archives as a rich repository, flush with freely available designs.

An Internet search of the United States Patent Office archives for golf tee patents returned a list of 1,158 since 1976.

While Mr. Galese has only produced a handful of these as 3-D designs, he is still looking in the patent office archives for simple, charming objects with some kind of link to the past, like the bookmark that not only holds your place, but holds a pen.

Using the MIT-hosted archive, patent applicants can find easily accessible examples of prior art and other technical information for reference.

He sometimes refers to the patent office's archives as the "original Thingiverse," comparing it to the rapidly growing online library of design files shared by 3-D printing hobbyists today.