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The Patent Office suffered a catastrophic power shutdown the week of Christmas 2015.
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In honor of the Rubik’s Cube craze that has recently hit the Galvani household, we decided to take a closer look at how this iconic toy was created and what type of intellectual property protection it has enjoyed over the…