Now, competitors can do their best to circumvent your invention by tweaking your idea just enough to gain a novel twist, advancing it or finding a nonequivalent alternative.

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These are the inventions that are massively complex or so novel that they don't fit in the expected path of invention, and they mess with the urgency at the office.

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The novel "combined humour, sadness and mystery with a wonderful linguistic playfulness and invention", said the judges.

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Kushner employs a similarly eerie confidence throughout her novel, which constantly entwines the invented with the real, and she often uses the power of invention to give her fiction the authenticity of the reportorial, the solidity of the historical.

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