...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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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20100181732 | SEAL A seal includes a supporting body; a disk-shaped sealing element fixed to the supporting body so as to form a static seal and to include a free end; and a sealing body disposed at the free end so as to form a dynamic sealing edge, wherein the sealing body includes a mat... | 07/22/2010 |
| 20100025939 | Sealing Device and Method of Producing the Same A sealing device for sealing a first side against a second side of a machine part, wherein the sealing device has a sealing element which contacts a counter element. At least a part of the sealing element and/or at least a part of the counter element is coated with a la... | 02/04/2010 |