...that to encourage use of his new invention, the shopping cart, market owner Sylvan Goldman hired fake shoppers to push the carts around his store in Oklahoma City? Seems his customers were reluctant to give up their hand-carried baskets.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7219465 | Floating bait container A live bait container includes a flexible, cylindrically shaped fabric mesh body having a side wall, a top wall, a bottom wall, and an interior storage space. A bottom hoop is positioned near the bottom wall. A first access port in one of the walls communicates with... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7207287 | Boat control device A drift bag that includes one or more narrowing members to reshape a mouth of the drift bag in the vertical direction to reduce a draft of the drift bag. ... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7082711 | Fishing float A combination slip/spring float with the ability to be used as a lighted float and more particularly a lighted center slide float. ... | 08/01/2006 |
| 6874272 | Fishing sinker A unitary fishing sinker having a body with a buoyant portion having a density less than water and a weighted portion with a density greater than water. A further feature of the invention includes an elongated sinker body formed on a central wire with a line connect... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6843018 | Fishing sinker A unitary fishing sinker having a body with a buoyant portion having a density less than water and a weighted portion with a density greater than water. A further feature of the invention includes an elongated sinker body formed on a central wire with a line connect... | 01/18/2005 |
| 6655075 | Weedless fishhook and method of making the same A weedless fishhook having a plurality of individual deflector strands extending toward the free end of the hook and a method of making such weedless fishhook.... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6557294 | Fishing sinker A unitary fishing sinker having a body with a buoyant portion having a density less than water and a weighted portion with a density greater than water. A further feature of the invention includes an elongated sinker body formed on a central wire with a l... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6484894 | Merchandiser display fixture A merchandise display fixture for connection to an upright of a gondola display. The display fixture includes a cavity defined by a wall having front, rear, and side wall portions; and at least one mounting hook that extends from the rear portion of the w... | 11/26/2002 |
| 6145240 | Fishing sinker A unitary fishing sinker having a body with a buoyant portion having a density less than water and a weighted portion with a density greater than water. A further feature of the invention includes an elongated sinker body formed on a central wire with a l... | 11/14/2000 |