Thread: Hair on a hook

Originally Posted by TLII

This is gonna be a good year for Looney Jigs this year my wife and I are looking into patent and trademarking this week.

Good for yall, man.
You gotta good thing going with yer jigs. They really catch fish. I've had the spanish chew off most of the paint, all the hair, and still catch fish with just a little of the thread dangling off it.

Great product ! I say go for it !!!! Good Luck !!!!

Originally Posted by Big Dawg

Getting a patent and trademarking a fishing jig might be an expensive venature and provide little protection from someone copying your product. Jigs are nothing more than a fish hook, hunk of lead and some kind of hair and thread. A patent/trademark protects some unique featuse of the product or the process used to make it. In the case of a fishing jig I'm not sure how you do that. It's kind of like trying to protect a fishing fly pattern. Example, I sit down and tie a streamer fly using an eagle claw hook, white buck tail. Some red flash and a brass head. It catches fish like crazy so I start selling them and have it patented and trademarked. Some one else starts making the samething only he uses crimped white nylon hair an owner hook and a gold glass bead for the head with purple flash. It also catches fish like crazy. I find out about it and sue him for patent infringement. We go to court and I spend money for lawyer's and so does he. The lawyers hire experts that I have to pay for to examine the streamer. The experts determine that his streamer is different than mine including the fact that his is 1/4" longer than mine and that he uses round thread and I use flat. They also determine that he ties his left handed and mine are tied right handed. It goes to court and the judge looks at the facts and dismisses my case. Conclusion, nobody wins except the lawyer's, they get paid win or lose. The weekend after the case, my lawyer and his meet the judge for a round of gulf at the local country club.

First of all it is a one of a kind mold, no one else has this mold. It was designed by my granddad. Sure you can go out and buy a do-it mold, but it is a totally different jig head. My jig will not fit inside a do-it mold. I am not patenting the hair, paint, or the thread. You should know any product that is manufactured to the public can not be patented with your design. Only YOUR design, which in my case is the jig head mold. In the case of paying lawyers and hiring lawyers to go to court, I have few family friends that are lawyers and they are willing to help me when I need them.

So, is there any way to tell you are getting a "real" loony jig with the special molded head?

Originally Posted by Rich1

So, is there any way to tell you are getting a "real" loony jig with the special molded head?

If you buy them in the package from J & M, they are the real deal!

IMHO that innovative 'hair winding wheel' Harvey came up with should be patented ;-)

Originally Posted by Pier#r

IMHO that innovative 'hair winding wheel' Harvey came up with should be patented ;-)

I agree the toughest part of building a jig, any jig, is putting the hair on. If I owned Loony jigs I would patent the head mold and the hair winding wheel. The spearhead jig mold myself and others are using is somewhat different than the Loony head. The Loony jig has a flatter profile than the spearhead jig. Not a lot of difference, but different.

The original hair was either 200 or 400 strands of 4LB clear Ande mono that he cranked on to the loom

Originally Posted by john g

The original hair was either 200 or 400 strands of 4LB clear Ande mono that he cranked on to the loom

Might have asked you this before john, but does J & M do any mail ordering for looney jigs. Wouldn't mind trying some up in Wisconsin.