Brush Fishing - Page 2

rockhopper · #11 (**permalink**) March 22nd, 2005

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Originally Posted by LaPala

Rockhopper:

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Just for the sake of clarification on patent laws. Lets say I'm a real cheapskate & would not want to pay for your wiggle rig but appreciates it's property so I go out & jury rig up one with rubber-bands I got off the postman for free. The properties of rubber-bands might not work as well as spectraelastic but hey it sort of works too.

Actually they won't work at all, unless you use a min. of 3 Oz of weight, and don't cast it. rubber by it's self won't work period, although I did file on it on my patent, as well as springs, and everything else you can think of, but the only thing that works is Spectastic, it's the only thing that has the breaking strenght that allows you to cast, and the light streach strenght for you to use a small weight, although my patent covers all elastic threads, they just will not hold up, the slighest snag breaks them off even if you can cast them, you would go through 20 weights and elastics a day.

The general Idea of the Wiggle didn't take me 2 hours to come up with, it took months of trial and error (all errror) until I invented the material that would work in the wild, and now at a cost of just 25 cents each, you can't get cheaper

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What's my status then in this case?

Rubber alone,, have fun, it just won't work, and your cost of weights will be huge, (I dropped the rubber claim, as they said it would require another patent filed)

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Am I infringing and ripping you off? And does it become worse if I tell my buddies about this cheapskate rig & they start using it too?

ANy type of eleastic, yes your infringing, but your not saving any money, it's costing you

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From what I see is some inventions are just so easy to do it in "another" way when someone has done the hard work of working it out & inventing the technique/equipment. So in this case how do you protect your own interest?

I'm lucky in this one, nothing else actually will work worth a hoot, and since I'm the world's only supplier of SPecTastic, I have the market locked up :-)

overkill · #12 (**permalink**) March 22nd, 2005

Isn't that the rig that Renownsky sells now? called the Boomerang rig or something like that?

rockhopper · #13 (**permalink**) March 22nd, 2005

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Originally Posted by overkill

Isn't that the rig that Renownsky sells now? called the Boomerang rig or something like that?

Yes he uses the first material I invented for this (he is a licensee of mine)

The Boomerange requires a minimum of 1 Oz of weight to work properly, the wiggle rig uses as little as 3/8 Oz or as much as you want to use