georgio

thank you LaPala! that sort of feedback is really helpful for me. looks like I have a lot of work to do! haha george

thanks very much cotton. that is a very good point. one thing that amazed me when i started doing research into fishing patents was the sheer number of patents already out there. this makes it extremely difficult for the average man in the street to know whether they are breaking the law or not when they design, make and sell their own lures. The more I get into this topic the more interested I become... Cheers

hi everyone, I found the following site which has some short videos that were made of various stands at the japan sportfishing show - http://www.naturum.co.jp/special/fishingshow2005/index.asp the films of course are in japanese but the movies do show all the lures on display and there are also some shots of lure action in a long testing tank the files are in mp4 format. they are pretty large files so only the keenest of lure makers would be interested. cheers

thanks for the feedback lapala, patents are pretty confusing for most people (other than people who work with them day and night!) - there seems to be a continual theme in the posts on TU.com -i.e. that lure makers need advice on deciding whether an application for a patent is worth their time, money and energy. and presumably they need/want advice on the alternative steps they can take to protect themselves (other than taking out a patent). perhaps this will be a topic that I will focus my energy on, at least initially. cheers,

hi everyone, i found tackleunderground today and i really like the site. i have always been very interested in making home made tackle and have had previous discussions on how to make home made squid jigs (which are lures to catch squid) on my main website called squidfish.net - http://www.squidfish.net/forums/index.php?showforum=27 more recently i created a new website called http://www.fishingpatents.com and i have started to slowly put it together. since there has been so much discussion at tackleunderground relating to patents, I thought perhaps you could give me some advice as to the topics I should cover on the site. at this stage all I have on the site is lists of fishing related patents (primarily from the Japan Patents Office). However I would like to write articles on more substantial topics that are of concern to tackle developers such as how to protect your invention and how to go about protecting your inventions, you to carry out a patent search, etc. i have some background in law and studied intellectual property in australia a few years back. so hopefully with my keen interest in fishing, tackle development and legal matters I can make the site useful for you all. all the very best to you and keep up the good work here at TU.com cheers, george (aka glen)