“You have to be in good health to be in the patent process. You can get old,” said Eric Teng, the inventor of the Garlic Twist, a plastic device that minces herbs.
Based in California, he was quoted in a US newspaper in 2005 as saying he received a patent only after investing tens of thousands of dollars and losing nights of sleep.
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