Inventor digs up innovative new garden tool.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-27 January 2000-THE PATENT OFFICE: Inventor digs up innovative new garden tool (C)1994-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:26012000 Intellectual property is proving an essential tool in business growth for the inventor of an innovative new gardening tool. Entrepreneur Robert Todd, designer of the simple but novel Spork, a cross between a garden fork and spade, is making use of intellectual property rights to ensure that his idea is fully protected.

The engineer and former landscape designer's invention is a stainless steel tool which can dig and cut roots as well as a spade, and weed and skim like a fork. The Woodstock-based inventor who has sold more than four and a half thousand Sporks since opening his mail order business seven...