Patents

I read patents for a living. Okay, so we couldn't live off it, but I do do it for money (and should be doing it now instead of blogging)
Today I saw some menthol tissues and thought, I think I read a patent on those. Sure enough, on the package it lists some 15 patents. And these are tissues people!
At the same store I also saw a package design that I had voted on in surveys that I also do for (very little) money. Sad to say that they were NOT the packages I had liked best, but still.
*I* know about products BEFORE they hit the shelves.

Too bad that doesn't make either me or the products cool.