rockhopper

[ I'm looking for something like this, but 2 1/2 to 3 inches

Send me an email rdlong@charter.net

Anyone making anything like the Zoom Tiny fluke, I have found this is the very top bass lure on my wiggle rig, this last week I caught over 150 bass on it, Last Wednesday. I caught 15 on 15 cast. Anyone making anything similar, let me know, I have a trade that you won't be able to resist, and you will be catching more bass than you ever dreamed on your tiny flukes, and Hopefully I will have a supply of these little guys :-) http://www.ezknot.com

This is the world, those who know how to play the game best, usually win. It took me years of learning how this game is played, and what players are cheaters. I will try to help any I can in getting into the game so they can reap the rewards of their new tackle designs. Rodney Long, Inventor of the Mojo SpecTastic "WIGGLE" rig, SpecTastic Thread, Boomerang Fishing Pro. ,Stand Out Hooks ,Stand Out Lures, Mojo's Rock Hopper & Rig Saver weights, and the EZKnot http://www.ezknot.com

This is a standard rip off People in this business know all payments are a percentage of "Gross", NEVER, EVER, an amount per unit,, but in your case you could have probably nailed him, unless you had such cost to be deducted in your contract ? I have 7 licensed fishing products, so far so good :-)

Anybody interested in doing a little tackle trading : A bag of my best pours for a bag of yours? Rob Budro Baits I'll do one a little better maybe,, I'll swap a new way to fish (yours or anyone else who wants to), soft plastics, for some of your soft plastics. It allows you to fish them in one spot and they never stop moving, it will change your lures from 2 D to 3 D action I'll send 5 dollars worth of my "Wiggle Bungees" for a like dollar amount of soft plastics (please no lizards, I have thousands) To see what I'm talking about,, just click on the "Mojo SpecTastic Wiggle rig" on my web site http://ezknot.com/ And email me with your address rdlong@charter.net, and I will get them right out to you

This is hilarious we are not even long distance By the way to all others needing a little help with trying to license their tackle,, anyone can call me 205 674 1495, I love helping others in this market get their products on the market

[q I do patent and prior art searches for those who want me to in this industry,, I only charge a token amount, considering what a patent attorney will charge for someone like me to do the search for them, and then they bill you. I've done over 200 searches over the last 30 years I've never had them question one of mine,, most in this industry already know what's been on the market, in their field. After licensing, the manufacturer takes care of all marketing and contacting buyers You can email me your phone number, and I can give you a call, it would be much quicker and more detailed than using this board, and it won't even cost you a phone call email it to rdlong@charter.net

This depends on what your planning on doing,, if your just looking for a contract manufacture, so you can do all the sales and marketing, or if your planing on licensing the invention to manufacture, and they do everything. I need to know which plan your going to do to answer the question

15 to 25%, The more profit you give tem the more they push your stuff

when selling 1,000 hooks wholesale they don't think anyone would relabel so few hooks, they are maybe sold for making lures, or jigs or what ever. I have bought many hooks by the thousand box, and never even sold any of them, much less thought bout relabeling them. Just give the company a call and ask them if it's OK, chances are high it is, they may even give you a better price

[ The only way is do a patent search, unless the lure has "patented" on the package, some do, but sometimes they use "ptented to scare off people, the patented part of the lure may only be a very small part. I have seen major companies putting patented on a new hot design, but when I looked up the patent, it was only on the "salt" in the lure, not the design, so anyone could copy it, just leave out the salt. Your one of the few that actualy care if they infringe, I'm glad to hear that you do. It used to be true, you could copy anything for personal use, but they changed the law. Today it is infringing the same as selling them. "USE" is spelled out clearly now in patent law Qoute from http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/doc/general/index.html#patent The right conferred by the patent grant is, in the language of the statute and of the grant itself, ?the right to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale, or selling? the invention in the United States or ?importing? the invention into the United States. What is granted is not the right to make, use, offer for sale, sell or import, but the right to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale, selling or importing the invention. It's hard to belive but many people have patents on things they can't even make themselves, because they have only patented part of the item, other parts of it are covered by other's patents that are in force, thus blocking them from even making a prototype, unless they bought the patented part from the patent holder

I have read the responces, you really need to contact me privitly, there is a lot you should know on how to proceed I would be gld to help you send me an email rdlong@charter.net

This obsolete rig :-) is set up by tying your line to the swivel, snapping a weight on the bottm clip, and "choaking" the two leadered hooks through the arm eyes You then have all that crap to throw,, or you can just tie on a couple of StandOut hooks to a single line, and a weight below them, you then have a double hook set up for crappie , that cost much less, and works twice as good,(sorry I just had to plug my hook, I can't help I invented it , it is the best way to fish double hooked, I would have told you about it even if I didn't invent it

It depends on the hook, if it is under a in force patent, this is what will happen, the patent owner would sue you, as thye would not know you actually bought "all" the hooks you are selling from them, you might be having a third party make some of them instead of just using "theirs", in which case they would probabaly stop you , because they want their design assocated with thier company name only Just to let you know , there are only "five" hook "manufacturing" companies in the whole wide world, yet there are hundreds of hook companies. If the design is not under a in force patent, any of the manufacturers would gladly let you put your name on "their" hooks, unless they are sold only under one hook companies name (they had the manufacture make them for them, and for them only, as they will not jeprodize that compaiies buisenss for you to sell a few thousand hooks, neither will any of the other four manufacturers, as they will be trying to get that buisness ot other buisness from the name brand) SO it just depends on the hook your wanting to resell, if it is a standard design sold by more than one company, you will have no problem, if it is a hook only sold by one company, they will shut off your supply. If the hook is well known by a company name, you would be able to market it better under that name , than your own, just buy them wholesale and resell them

Yes unless you can aford , or barter you one Not unless you got money to burn I wouldn't, because most of these charge too much, it's better to just get you a server for around 10 dollars or less a month, if you need the name of one email me (rdlong@charter.net) and I will give you a good one to go to, that's cheep Why do you want to contact these people ?

The Story behind me inventing that hook is really quite funny, it took me 15 min. I was talking to Larry, the owner of Mojo Lures, he was cusing under his breath as he talked to me< I finnaly asked him what the neck he was doing that had him so frustrated, he said he was going fishing the next day and was trying to pre-tie drop shot hooks, and the hooks were not sticking out right, then he said I wish someone would invent a hook that stuck straight out from the line. I asked him if he thought there ws a market for such a hook?,, ne said hell yes, I hung up the hone and jumped on the computer, I had the drawing complete in 15 min, then emailed them to him, called him back and told him to check is email. He then yelled over the phone what you just posted :-)