Clint Fabiosa & Ana Liza Villamor
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IT'S no longer surprising to know that the “King of Pop” was himself a bundle of Intellectual Property Rights.

But the genius in him made him extend beyond copyrights and trademarks. The King had a patent registration for what he calls “anti-gravity shoes.”

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Although the shoes did not actually make the King defy the laws of gravity, it made him create the illusion that he did in most of his performances on stage for the Smooth Criminal song. U.S. Patent and Trade Office, Patent No. 5,255,452 covers a “system for allowing a shoe wearer to lean forwardly beyond his center of gravity by virtue of wearing a specially-designed pair of shoes.”

The heel of the shoes had a slot that allows them to get hitched by retractable pegs on a stage floor. Once the shoes are secured on the stage, the wearer can then lean beyond his center of gravity and then come back to his original position—creating the illusion that the laws of gravity are defied.