In our recent post on the Alex Tremulis flying saucer hood ornament, we came across its design patent, which led us down the rabbit hole that is Google Patents, via which you can search through more than 7 million patents. Plug in a few keywords and you start to see that patents – especially design patents – were taken out on all sorts of sketchpad doodles that never had a hope of reaching production.

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