Can I resurrect a 60 year old product?

[NCWbob]

Get the patent and file for the name trademark and plow ahead. After you got those no one likely will challenge you.

I do not know if you can re-apply for a expired patent so i would suggest you modify the item slightly and apply for a new patent.

When doing a patent search, hire a patent attorney, you will find out if there are any modern day similar patents that may interfere with your plans.

 

[Comatose]

Get the patent and file for the name trademark and plow ahead. After you got those no one likely will challenge you.

I do not know if you can re-apply for a expired patent so i would suggest you modify the item slightly and apply for a new patent.

When doing a patent search, hire a patent attorney, you will find out if there are any modern day similar patents that may interfere with your plans.

You can neither re-apply for an existing patent, nor can you patent an existing product (well, this is a bit murkier, but for all practical purposes at the budgets of anyone on this site.) Patents are one-and-done forever, that's the whole point.

 

[4GSR]

You can neither re-apply for an existing patent, nor can you patent an existing product (well, this is a bit murkier, but for all practical purposes at the budgets of anyone on this site.) Patents are one-and-done forever, that's the whole point.

I can show you a couple examples of things that I work with/on over the years that were designed/ invented and never patented. All of a sudden, 30 years later a very large company gets a patent for one such product. Somebody did not do a good search on it and or could not find any evidence of it ever been in existence. The one incident we ran across, we showed it to the company patent attorney along with the evidence of where it did exist. The attorney was surprised. An action was supposed to been turned in the the US Patent office noting the existing product. I don't know if anything ever came of it or not. I left that company not too long after that.