Judy's
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Toy Patents Most toy manufacturers protected their investments by securing patents on either the mechanisms that motivate the toy (known as a Utility Patent) or on the artistic design (known as a Design Patent). Shown herein are examples of a few company's patent efforts and photographs of the resulting toys. The US Patent Office does not yet offer computer searchable archives for patents issued prior to the 1950s so I have to manually search for toy patents. If you can help, please do so and let me know the results. Thanks, Judy To access the US Patent Office archives, click here to go to our page on Toy Research. In the mean time, check out the interesting patents for the following companies:
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