More specifically, I have made it a point to say regardless of what you think caused your shyness if you think you're shy due to being born shy or due to a patenting style or family circumstances or whatever, there are still things you can do to work with your shyness instead of working against it.
Asos, for instance, has a punky patent buckled style called Auckland (£55, asos.com) with a cutaway heel that's perfect for those days when your toes are chilly but the backs of your feet are just too darn hot.
An example of this took place in the late 1990s when Microsoft, at the time at the peak of its powers, menaced the online community, by obtaining a patent affecting style sheets—after "encouraging" the W3C to incorporate the feature in the standard.
They reveal major differences across countries in patent drafting styles, especially between Civil and Common Law countries, the latter being characterized by much larger patents.
There is also a special expo, "Mary McFadden: Cultural Modernist," dedicated to the onetime CFDA president who embraced exotic cultures in her designs and patented a style of pleating called Marii that she made her signature beginning in the '70s.
So far, the sisters, who invested $25,000 from their savings, have designed and patented two styles and built a Web site.
At Louis Vuitton, Marc Jacobs sent a smoking Kate Moss down the runway in fetish-style patent leather gloves.
But Cipla cannot legally sell the drug in many African countries, which have Western-style patent laws.
In some cases, though, the generic makers have been blocked from selling their wares in other developing countries that have Western-style patent laws.
In 1873, Eli H. Janney patented a knuckle style coupler that was to become the standard for the freightcar couplers used even today.
It is often argued that the existence of IP laws incentivises innovation (as the monopolisation of knowledge or products create profits for those who own the IP rights) but considering the low number of patents in Kenya, the current high level of innovation cannot be attributed to incentives offered by the western-style patent regime that is in place.
