From a business standpoint, not fishing. The BPS catalog has "Renosky Chatterbaits", but I don't see anything on either the Renosky or Rad Lures sites.

http://www.basspro.com/servlet/catalog.TextId?hvarTextId=78378&hvarTarget=search&cmCat=SearchResults

Competition.

I guess BPS got a better financial deal on their brand of Chatterbaits than the originals.

My brother is an attorney and he told me once that patent attorneys make their money going against companies that steal your ideas.  After all, once you get a pattern no one can reproduce the same product for 17 years.

But overseas, those people do what they please and it is very difficult to stop them.

There are other Chatterbait types of lures out there, such as the Booyah Boogie Bait.

It's all about the money.

I was taught in Business Law in college that you can not patent something

that mimics a living creature. Which is why you see 400 different brands of

plastic worms that look the same. What you can do is patent a particular part

of that plastic worm. For example if your worm has a double corkscrew tail with

bubble pockets (or some crap like that) in it, then you would patent the unique

tail design.

JT Bagwell

Jeramiah,  Do you happen to have any extra "double corkscrew tail w/ bubble pockets" worms?  I am very interested.  LMAO, that is classic!!

I could be wrong but I believe Renosky was the original, but much larger initially and tailored for muskys.  Could be wrong.

just fish booyah boogie baits and call it good!

I'm thinking that Renosky was contracted to help with the surge in business that RAD experienced last year.  Don't know if something more than that developed.  Almost sounds like it from the ad.  Keep in mind that the ads aren't necessarily proof-read by the manufacturer prior to print.  i.e. Bandits page says 'made in USA'.  They were, but aren't now.

I'm thinking that Renosky was contracted to help with the surge in business that RAD experienced last year.

That would be my best guess.  When those first got hot you couldn't find the originals anywhere but they had the knock offs from the larger companies all over the place.  It happens a lot.  Like the King Kong bait that Strike King has out.  It is actually the Titan from ABT.  

Jeramiah, Do you happen to have any extra "double corkscrew tail w/ bubble pockets" worms? I am very interested. LMAO, that is classic!!

LOL I can't let you have any yet, I haven't got my patent approved.

LOL What the heck have you been up too? It's been a while man.

JT Bagwell

If you want the best of the chatterbaits try the booyah boggee bait.  It has awesome action.

renosky and the original rad lures chatterbait is the same thing, rad lures has resosky make and market their product.

My understanding is that Rad was making the chatterbait on their own.  then the word got out and when demand exploded rad made a deal with renosky to meet production demands.

this was really smart business move on rads part.  The lure still sells well, but last year ......whew,  they were gold.

PS  - I have fished several of the knockoffs and I like the rad/renosky model best.

kb here i think guys are finding out that these baits are not as good as the hype was.  as far as ia'm concerned  they had a he!! of a product hype   kb

My brother is an attorney and he told me once that patent attorneys make their money going against companies that steal your ideas. After all, once you get a pattern no one can reproduce the same product for 17 years.

Are you sure it's 17 years.  I thought it was only 5-7 years and part of those years are when your trying to develop the final product.  So if you patent an idea, and it takes you 2 or 3 years to make it public, then you only have 2-3 more years until other will produce and supply the exact same product.