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10-23-2006, 05:52 PM
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Hydro Orientated Lures
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Brockton,Ma
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jigman
A little tweaking here and there and you may end up with something very different than what you started with.
Jigman
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yea ... Like "Jiggy Spook " Plug of the Year .. |
Belcher Goonfoock (retired)
(dob 4-21-07)
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10-23-2006, 05:56 PM
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Moderator
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Marshfield, MA
Posts: 6,267
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Tagger
yea ... Like "Jiggy Spook " Plug of the Year ..
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A-right......took some more finish of mine today  ....can't believe I havent lost that plug |
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10-25-2006, 07:18 PM
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Registered Grandpa
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: east coast
Posts: 8,592
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Originally Posted by Tagger
yea ... Like "Jiggy Spook " Plug of the Year ..
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Yup i second that. 
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I figure when you get to the point
where you can't give credit to the guy
you copied, or thank the ones who helped
you get started, there is a problem. |
" Choose Life "
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10-25-2006, 08:02 PM
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Jiggin' Leper Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: 61° 30′ 0″ N, 23° 46′ 0″ E
Posts: 8,159
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It's next to impossible to get a patent for a fishing lure. Scratch the "next to"---for all practical purposes, you can't. You can make an exact copy of an "Ultimate Gizmo" and call it something else, and there ain't a damn thing the Ultimate Gizmo Co. can do about it.
Trademarks are another story. But, you have to find out a) what's trademarked, and b) who really owns it and will they bitch about it?
For example---does Gibbs own the trademark to "Pencil Popper" or do they own the trademark to "Gibbs Pencil Popper"?
The only thing I know for sure about trademarks--because I was asked to check--is that Creek Chub trademarked "darter" back in the early 1950s. As far as I know, they've never asserted any challenge to any other lure builder's use of that name, and in fact may not be able to after the passage of a certain amount of time without complaint.
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools, because they have to say something.
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10-26-2006, 09:07 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Uh, in a spot....
Posts: 5,451
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike P
It's next to impossible to get a patent for a fishing lure. Scratch the "next to"---for all practical purposes, you can't. You can make an exact copy of an "Ultimate Gizmo" and call it something else, and there ain't a damn thing the Ultimate Gizmo Co. can do about it.
Trademarks are another story. But, you have to find out a) what's trademarked, and b) who really owns it and will they bitch about it?
For example---does Gibbs own the trademark to "Pencil Popper" or do they own the trademark to "Gibbs Pencil Popper"?
The only thing I know for sure about trademarks--because I was asked to check--is that Creek Chub trademarked "darter" back in the early 1950s. As far as I know, they've never asserted any challenge to any other lure builder's use of that name, and in fact may not be able to after the passage of a certain amount of time without complaint.
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Stan was advised to trademark all his designs, never did it. The only trademarked name Gibbs owns is the "Danny" plug. They bought the rights and had it trademarked a few years back.
Cotton Cordell actually has the name Pencil Popper trademarked but there is an "agreement" between themselves and Gibbs as to who can and who can't call it a Pencil Popper. Seeing how Cordell, now part of Pradco, stole it from Gibbs. |
Why even try......... 
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10-26-2006, 06:18 PM
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Oblivious // Grunt, Grunt Master
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: over the hill
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Gosh, I'd better trademark the name "Fishless Crap", which I seem to have perfected, right away!
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10-26-2006, 06:19 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2002
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Can I borrow that name George?  |
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10-27-2006, 05:27 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Here and There Seasonally
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Quote:
Originally Posted by numbskull
Gosh, I'd better trademark the name "Fishless Crap", which I seem to have perfected, right away!
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Sounds like franchise material....  |
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
Thomas Paine
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10-26-2006, 06:18 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 5,945
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Quote:
Originally Posted by justplugit
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I figure when you get to the point
where you can't give credit to the guy
you copied, or thank the ones who helped
you get started, there is a problem.
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