patent number..?

Question

i was looking at one of those jugs of water and it had "patent number 5,000,134" and i think a lot things does contain such thing...now what do you suppose the number stand for....

Answer 1

My brother was an office manager for a patent attorney in Minneapolis, Minnesota. You register your article with them after paying a fee, the article is now yours to make, it belongs entirely to you and, no one else, your given a number and it's registered with the U.S. Patent office in Washington D.C. this number is yours forever. Well, that's not entirely true, it's yours for like 99 years then you have to reapply.
It costs roughly $600.00 to apply but there has to be a search, this is costly for the attorneys and it's insured. It ll takes time also. They go through libraries, newspapers, etc, it takes awhile.

All these numbers pertain to your article and your invention, like your name, it's yours.

Answer 2

Patent number is a number assigned to a patent granted by US Patent and Trademark Office, http://www.uspto.gov

With that number you can search from above site or http://www.google.com/patents to get to the details of the patent: Here we go...

Title: Fuel supplying system for internal combustion engine
Patent number: 5000134
Filing date: Oct 13, 1989
Issue date: Mar 19, 1991
Inventors: Hiroaki Fujimoto, Seiji Inoue
Assignee: Sanshin Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha