OKLAHOMA CITY -
Aug. 3, 2016 -
PRLog -- I have written to some extent about my positive invention licensing experience with the "Fishing Rod Floater", which I co-invented with Johnny W. Hall . In this article I will add to that information. We (our small corporation)
received our first check from Wal-Mart in 1990. The payment was for being a "Specified Territory Local Vendor", and was in the amount of $360.41, dated June 1990. It was payment for an end-cap display of Rod Floaters we built. I did eventually submit the Rod Floater to TTI-Blakemore (then simply called "Blakemore Corp") in 1996 and they accepted it under a license agreement. The "Tube-A-Lure"
, a second device I placed under the same patent (due to it having the same design but different dimensions), I submitted it to "Colby's, Inc.", the company we licensed it to. They could not make headway with the product, due to similar ones already being sold, making for too small a market available for it. Patent attorneys who conducted a preliminary patent search in year 1997, for my pouch products were not the same attorney group who successfully patented the Rod Floater in 1992. These are pouches for attracting fish with a substance called "chum" by casting them into fishing areas and the other for placing deer attractant into (minerals they crave) and hanging them on tree branches, to
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