In honor of celebrating my birthday AND the one-year anniversary of my very first design patent, I wanna give a really particular shoutout to SHEIN.
Yeah, you learn that proper. We give credit score the place credit score is due, proper?
If it weren’t for them stealing my Pirouette Skort design (ahem, twice), I wouldn’t have utilized for my very first design patent. I wouldn’t have been granted that patent one yr later, ON MY BIRTHDAY. Greatest present of my life.
Two years and 499 dupes later
Receiving that patent on my birthday was like a extremely bizarre signal that I used to be on the best path. Since then, we’ve now taken down 393 dupes of the Pirouette Skort alone. INSANE.
Now, design patents are NOT simple to get. They’re extremely costly and the applying course of is extraordinarily time consuming and complicated. It’s very tough, which is why you don’t hear about many designers going this route. That stated, having a design patent is probably the most highly effective device I’ve in my pocket for shielding my rights as an unbiased designer.
And I’ve merely had sufficient of dupers. Sufficient. I’m so blissful to share that in 2024, I used to be additionally awarded a patent on my Corset Pirouette Gown, the Superbra®, the Sklegging, and the Mountain climbing Superskort™.
Since my final bday, we’ve now killed 499 dupes. And we’re simply getting began.
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