Fishing lure and method
CA 2037167 C · Owner: Dipaola, Frank Albert · Inventors: Dipaola, Frank Albert
Overview
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This invention relates to a fishing lure having a flexible body portion. The body portion has means for attaching a hook to one end and a fishing line to the other end. The body portion is formed by a flexible core element with radially extending flexible fibers from the core element. Because of the flexibility of the radially extending fibers a, "soft" body portion is formed resulting in the advantage that the fish has a tendency to keep the lure in its mouth longer. The fibers are longer at the middle of the body portion and continually get shorter towards the ends in a tapering fashion such that the body portion has a minnow-like shape. The body portion, further, has memory …
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- Filed February 27, 1991 and granted August 27, 1996. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended February 27, 2011.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by February 27, 2013.
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