Sheila
02-13-2001, 11:48 AM
How about a little U.S. Patent & Trademark research for the need-to-know types like me?
Use Quick Search from patent page: http://www.uspto.gov/patft/index.html
Since OMC's demise, I tried this search:
Term 1= Outboard Marine Corporation
Field 1= Assignee Name
Select Years= All years
(Results in 937 patents - Wow! Wonder if there's any value$ in them?)
Then another with:
Term 1= Brunswick Corporation
Field 1= Assignee Name
Select Years= All years
(Results in 1187 patents - opps there's a bunch of outboard, fishing and billiards stuff mixed together)
If you want to view "references cited" of older prior year patents in some of the newer patents abstracts, you have to view them as IMAGES and need to download & install the only free TIFF Browser plugin available for TIFFs at: http://www.mieweb.com/alternatiff/
I particularly like the early 1905 reference (#780,029) under "Planer Board" patent #5,875,583 (Hey Chairman, do you know Bill Church of Church Tackle Co? Offshore Tackle was listed in his patent.) And the early 1913 reference (#1,307,623) for a dually big-board planer simply called "fishing apparatus" found under "Planer Board" #5,341,591 - a triple board design.
Then there's old 1900 reference stuff out of OMC's "Four-cycle marine engine" #5,738,051
Who would've guessed OMC holds the Curling Iron patent!#4,756,320 with a prior reference to a 1916 patent. I must own 5 of those things.
Other search results on Titles only:
"Ice Fishing" - 135, "Fishing Lure" - 1100, "Fishing line" - 262, "Fishing rod" - 261,"Fishing" - 4997, "Walleye" - only 1!
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How about a TRADEMARK Search to at http://www.uspto.gov/web/menu/tm.html
Hey! I found Golden's trademark for "Shut Up and Fish" #75874170 and also "Walleye Central" #75475324
Check out the trademarks for "walleye"! A bunch are DEAD now.
I would have never known the oldest "walleye" TM still listed as LIVE is from 1985 for A WINE called "Walleye White" by Paramount Distillers in Ohio. I gotta have some of that don't you think?!!!! Reward to anyone who can find me some...
Use Quick Search from patent page: http://www.uspto.gov/patft/index.html
Since OMC's demise, I tried this search:
Term 1= Outboard Marine Corporation
Field 1= Assignee Name
Select Years= All years
(Results in 937 patents - Wow! Wonder if there's any value$ in them?)
Then another with:
Term 1= Brunswick Corporation
Field 1= Assignee Name
Select Years= All years
(Results in 1187 patents - opps there's a bunch of outboard, fishing and billiards stuff mixed together)
If you want to view "references cited" of older prior year patents in some of the newer patents abstracts, you have to view them as IMAGES and need to download & install the only free TIFF Browser plugin available for TIFFs at: http://www.mieweb.com/alternatiff/
I particularly like the early 1905 reference (#780,029) under "Planer Board" patent #5,875,583 (Hey Chairman, do you know Bill Church of Church Tackle Co? Offshore Tackle was listed in his patent.) And the early 1913 reference (#1,307,623) for a dually big-board planer simply called "fishing apparatus" found under "Planer Board" #5,341,591 - a triple board design.
Then there's old 1900 reference stuff out of OMC's "Four-cycle marine engine" #5,738,051
Who would've guessed OMC holds the Curling Iron patent!#4,756,320 with a prior reference to a 1916 patent. I must own 5 of those things.
Other search results on Titles only:
"Ice Fishing" - 135, "Fishing Lure" - 1100, "Fishing line" - 262, "Fishing rod" - 261,"Fishing" - 4997, "Walleye" - only 1!
------------
How about a TRADEMARK Search to at http://www.uspto.gov/web/menu/tm.html
Hey! I found Golden's trademark for "Shut Up and Fish" #75874170 and also "Walleye Central" #75475324
Check out the trademarks for "walleye"! A bunch are DEAD now.
I would have never known the oldest "walleye" TM still listed as LIVE is from 1985 for A WINE called "Walleye White" by Paramount Distillers in Ohio. I gotta have some of that don't you think?!!!! Reward to anyone who can find me some...