# Gummy removable adhesive--what is it exactly?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 22, 2005, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gummy-removable-adhesive-what-is-it-exactly/291390 "2005-02-22T19:51:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2013, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gummy-removable-adhesive-what-is-it-exactly/291390/21 "2013-04-28T05:18:09Z")

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> [@Senegoid](#):
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> At the _very bottom_ of the piece of paper, was a message in quite small type, declaring that something on the page (not clearly specified what) was either Copyright or Trademark (I forget which already) by. . . wait for it . . .
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> . . . _Dianetics_ ! :smack:

It would be patent, and I’m all a-quiver for someone to explain to me how a _book_ can hold a patent.

Either your memory is going, there’s more than one Dianetics around, or your memory is going.

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