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Storyline and fashion patents

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Stories, storylines, and literatture are examples of fields where ideas cannot be patented.

However, the USPTO has agreed to review one such patent.

(to check: See Ben D. Manevitz "What's the Story with Storyline Patents - An Argument Against the Allowance of Proposed Storyline Patents and for the Rejection of Currently Pending Storyline Patent Applications" (2006) 24 Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal 717.)