Did You Know...
...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| D580144 | Portion of a cleat | 11/11/2008 |
| 7441349 | Shoe with optimal mass distribution Disclosed is a shoe including an upper for receiving a foot and a sole unit with a heel region and forefoot region, wherein an additional weight is arranged in at least one of the forefoot region and the heel region of the sole unit to stabilize the foot against at ... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7427246 | Ball for ball game and method for manufacturing the same The ball for a ball game of the invention includes a fabric layer (1) having a spherical 12-hedron where twelve right pentagonal fabric pieces (2) are sewn together. The marginal edges of the fabric piece being folded by 90 degrees, and the marginal ed... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7406781 | Modular shoe A modular shoe includes an upper with an upper side and a lower side, a chassis releasably arranged in an interior of the upper, and a plurality of studs. Each stud is releasably attached to the chassis through the lower side of the upper. The lower side of the uppe... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7401419 | Structural element for a shoe sole The present invention relates to a shoe sole including a cushioning element. The shoe sole can include a heel cup or heel rim having a shape that substantially corresponds to the shape of heel of a foot. Further, the heel part can include a plurality of side walls a... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7401422 | Plate for running shoe The invention relates to a shoe, in particular a sprint shoe, including a plate arranged in a sole area of the shoe. The plate extends essentially over the complete length of the sole area and is substantially planar in a forefoot part and is constructed of a materi... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7353627 | Detachable cleat system The present invention relates to a sole made from a first material, at least one receptacle made from a second material, and at least one stud, which can be releasably mounted within the receptacle by inserting a fastening projection of the stud into the receptacle.... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7243445 | Ball and socket 3D cushioning system The invention relates to a sliding element for a shoe sole. The sliding element includes an upper sliding surface and a lower sliding surface, wherein the lower sliding surface is arranged below the upper sliding surface so as to be slideable in at least two directi... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7225565 | Intelligent footwear systems The invention is directed to intelligent systems for articles of footwear that adjust automatically in response to a measured performance characteristic. The intelligent systems include one or more adjustable elements coupled to a mechanism that actuates the adjusta... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7210248 | Shoe ventilation system Disclosed is a ventilation system for articles of footwear. The ventilation system includes at least one opening in the shoe upper and at least one guiding surface over the opening. The guiding surface is oriented such that airflow is directed into the opening as th... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7188439 | Intelligent footwear systems The invention is directed to intelligent systems for articles of footwear that adjust automatically in response to a measured performance characteristic. The intelligent systems include one or more adjustable elements coupled to a mechanism that actuates the adjusta... | 03/13/2007 |
| 6957503 | Magnetically operable studs for footwear The invention relates to a releasable stud for a shoe sole. The releasable stud includes a stud body and a first fastening mechanism coupled to the stud body. The first fastening mechanism is magnetically operable and interacts with a second fastening mechanism of t... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6931765 | Shoe cartridge cushioning system The present invention relates to a shoe sole, in particular for a sports shoe, where the sole includes a cartridge cushioning system that includes a load distribution plate arranged in a heel region of the shoe sole, at least one cushioning element for determining t... | 08/23/2005 |
| D506053 | Pair of soles | 06/14/2005 |
| D499807 | Foot strap | 12/14/2004 |
