This is a big ol' sweet love story about sons, the families we make and red patent leather.

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The three-and-a-half-inch red peep-toe patent leather pumps - that's something I've never said on the air before - three-and-a-half-inch red peep-toe patent leather pumps are now selling like hotcakes on at least one online shoe site.

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No, not as in the sense of the title to this blog, but in the sense that if someone patents a blue telephone you cannot then gain a further patent for a red one.

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The Phosphor Reveal line offers six style choices: pink, red, white and black patent leather for women with crystal-adorned face frame, and two black matte leather men's band choices with or without adorned top ring.

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If wheels already exist in green and red and purple I cannot claim a patent on a vermillion wheel.

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The patent points out that networked portable devices which employ infra-red or radio-frequency communication have limitations.

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There are 800 miniature facsimiles of various inventors' dreams, once required by the U.S. Patent Office, all equipped with their original patent tags, attached by tiny bits of government-issued red ribbon.

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The most loquacious shoe in the show is Prada's patent-leather "Flame" wedge of last spring, in STP red.

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Patent leather ballet flats paired with brightly colored tights pitter-pattered down a red lacquered runway.

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