Briefly described, the paper clip of the invention comprises a single resilient wire with its center bent into an unclosed diamond shaped ring. 'They cannot attach propery at a comer of a paper.Over the past century there have been hundreds of patents issued for bent wire paper clips. In 1899, a patent was granted to William Middlebrook of Connecticut for a machine designed to produce wire paper clips. This Framed Paper Clip Patent Print comes in a Beveled Black Wood Frame. In 1899, Vaaler designed his own version of a paper clip to address the same problem of binding papers without damaging them. The first patent for a bent wire paper clip was awarded in the United States to Samuel B. Fay in 1867. In employing a patent attorney or agent, you execute a power of attorney, filed and made of record in the application file. How many of humanity's brightest ideas started out on a scrap of paper, a Post-It, or in the margins of a notebook? Dyrsmid began each morning with two jars on his desk.