Gallery: A Visual History of The Artificial Dog

Patent #: D51470
Filing date: Sep 13, 1917
Issue date: Nov 1917
Inventor: CLAUDE S. HAMMOCK
Assignee: NOBBYTOY COMPANY
What Was New: ornamental design for a toy, substantially as shown

Patent #: D72237
Filing date: Aug 6, 1926
Issue date: Mar 1927
Inventor: NEAL W. PLOOSTER
What Was New: ornamental design for a toy dog, as shown

Patent #: 2385914
Filing date: Apr 24, 1945
Issue date: Oct 1945
Inventor: Generale
What Was New: pull toy comprising a "dog-simulating member"

Patent #: D179949
Filing date: Feb 28, 1956
Issue date: Mar 1957
Inventor: Helen H. Malsed
What Was New: ornamental design for an expanding/contracting toy

Patent #: D186323
Filing date: Mar 27, 1959
Issue date: Oct 1959
Inventor: David M. Kinniburgh
What Was New: ornamental design for an animal figure

Patent #: 2909001
Filing date: Mar 12, 1956
Issue date: Oct 20, 1959
Inventor: M. I. GLASS
What Was New: electrically-driven wheeled figure toy

Note: design was eventually refined

Patent #: D373801
Filing date: Apr 28, 1995
Issue date: Sep 17, 1996
Inventors: Keiko Doi, Masatsune Sasaki
Assignees: Tomy Company, Ltd.
What Was New: ornamental design for a toy figurine, as shown

Patent #: D382029
Filing date: Feb 9, 1996
Issue date: Aug 5, 1997
Inventor: Simon Kat Hong Cheng
Assignees: James Industries, Inc.
What Was New: SLINKY dog pull toy

Patent #: 6337552
Filing date: Dec 8, 1999
Issue date: Jan 8, 2002
Inventors: Makoto Inoue, Taku Yokoyama
Assignee: Sony Corporation
What Was New: robot apparatus capable of autonomously performing actions in natural ways

Patent #: D457203
Filing date: Oct 17, 2000
Issue date: May 14, 2002
Inventors: Tomohiko Onishi, Nobata Fujio
Assignees: Sega Toys, Ltd.
What Was New: ornamental design for a robotic dog, as shown and described

Patent #: D445849
Filing date: Jan 10, 2001
Issue date: Jul 31, 2001
Inventor: Shinya Saito
Assignees: Tomy Company, Ltd.
What Was New: ornamental design for the dog robot toy, as shown

Patent #: 6736694
Filing date: Feb 5, 2001
Issue date: May 18, 2004
Inventors: James R. Hornsby, Marcellus R. Benson, Joseph L. McGowan, Arne A. Schmidt, William H. Bronson, Jr.
Assignees: All Season Toys, Inc.
What Was New: an interactive amusement device and system encompassing a primary robotic unit which performs actions communicated by a remote wireless transmitter and at least one secondary robotic unit which interacts through wireless communication with the primary robotic unit

Patent #: D448433
Filing date: May 1, 2000
Issue date: Sep 25, 2001
Inventors: Mie Ueda, Tomohiko Onishi, Nobata Fujio
Assignee: Sega Toys Ltd.
What Was New: ornamental design for a robotic dog, as shown and described

Patent #: D468375
Filing date: Apr 30, 2002
Issue date: Jan 7, 2003
Inventor: Moon-Lam So
Assignee: May Cheong Toy Products Factory Limited
What Was New: ornamental design for a toy dog, as shown and described

Patent #: D467983
Filing date: May 8, 2002
Issue date: Dec 31, 2002
Inventor: Junko Yamazaki
Assignees: Tomy Company, Ltd.
What Was New: ornamental design for a dog toy, as shown and described

Patent #: 7118443
Filing date: Sep 25, 2003
Issue date: Oct 10, 2006
Inventors: Jon C. Marine, Tara McGrath, Joyce Mesch, Kevin W. Gray, Ok-Soo Choi
Assignees: Mattel, Inc.
What Was New: animated toys adapted to imitate multiple personas

Patent #: D511188
Filing date: Nov 4, 2003
Issue date: Nov 1, 2005
Inventors: Yuka Takeda, Jun Uchiyama, Kozo Kawakita, Hironari Hoshino, Daisuke Ishii, Nobuhiko Oguchi, Taku Sugawara
Assignee: Sony Corporation
What Was New: ornamental design for a robot, as shown (ERS-111, 210, 311)

Patent #: D537891
Filing date: Jul 15, 2005
Issue date: Mar 6, 2007
Inventors: Daniel Judkins, Endo Yoshiyuki, Fujio Nobata
Assignees: Hasbro, Inc.
What Was New: ornamental design for a robotic dog, as shown and described

Patent #: D572319
Filing date: Jan 19, 2007
Issue date: Jul 1, 2008
Inventor: Shiu Hang Yuen
Assignee: Golden Bright Manufacturer Ltd.
What Was New: ornamental design for toy robot dog, as shown and described

Patent #: D566794
Filing date: Sep 11, 2007
Issue date: Apr 15, 2008
Inventors: Daniel Judkins, Ceileidh Siegel
Assignees: Hasbro, Inc.
What Was New: ornamental design for a robotic dog, as shown and described.