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After a few years had passed, Charlie realized that he should patent his design. A family friend agreed to help him with the legal work, if Charlie would do the 'prior art' search. Charlie headed to the nearest patent office, 70 miles south in Sunnyvale, CA. He was stunned to find that his two most significant modifications had been patented the previous month by Campagnolo. A couple of the features of Charlie's post, which incidentally had not been visible in the Bicycling Magazine review, had not be patented, and Charlie duly patented those remaining designs. However, with the design now property of Campagnolo, Charlie ended his focus on seatposts and directed his attention to building his complete, revolutionary mountainbikes.