A01K 85/00
Artificial bait for fishing
A01K85/00 (Artificial bait for fishing) appears on 2,142 US grants and 1,577 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A01K- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 1,577
- Assignees
- 451
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- 2,837
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2026 | 37 | 44 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- A01K 85/01Artificial bait for fishing: with light emission, sound emission, scent dispersal or654
- A01K 85/16Artificial bait for fishing: with other than flat, or substantially flat, undulating640
- A01K 85/02Artificial bait for fishing: with means for concealing or protecting hooks272
- A01K 85/14Artificial bait for fishing: with flat, or substantially flat, undulating bodies159
- A01K 85/10Artificial bait for fishing: with at least one flat rotating body having118
- A01K 85/12Comprising a body rotating around its longitudinal axis111
- A01K 85/08Artificial flies87
- A01K 85/1811Flexible or with flexible appendages32
All 26 subgroupsShow fewer
- A01K 85/1837Weighted26
- A01K 85/005Without hooks24
- A01K 85/1851Artificial bait for fishing: with hook and line connections extending through or18
- A01K 85/029Interchangeable body parts17
- A01K 85/1831Mounted on hooks17
- A01K 85/1871Artificial bait for fishing: with two or more lures or movably connected17
- A01K 85/1803Artificial bait for fishing: with a diving vane or lip14
- A01K 85/1897Lures characterised by the manufacturing process11
- A01K 85/1847Hollow bodies10
- A01K 85/1867Artificial bait for fishing: characterised by the line attachments10
- A01K 85/1841Artificial bait for fishing: with adjustable direction or buoyancy control9
- A01K 85/1893Motor-operated artificial bait9
- A01K 85/026Artificial bait for fishing: with trap hooks6
- A01K 85/1853Lure slidable on line6
- A01K 85/1863Artificial bait for fishing: with biasing mechanism generating specific lure motion during5
- A01K 85/1807Artificial bait for fishing: with an automatically movable directing vane3
- A01K 85/1857Artificial bait for fishing: with a hook to line connection interlocked by1
- A01K 85/1861Shiftable on strike1
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