Penny first marketed her automatic backscratcher to the public 30 months ago,and has been tinkering with its design ever since.Deciding that the original design was as good as it was going to get,she took it to a patent lawyer last week.He told her that,under the Patent Act,she will not be able to patent it because she has left it too late.He would not have said that if Penny had approached him two months after she first started marketing it.

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According to the information given, Penny first marketed her automatic backscratcher 30 months ago and has been tinkering with its design ever since. The patent lawyer told her that she cannot patent it now because she left it too late, which implies that there was a window of opportunity for her to patent it earlier. If she had approached the lawyer two months after she first started marketing it, she could have potentially been able to patent it. Therefore, the statement is true.

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