Company Analysis

Global Industrial Company (GIC)

NYSE: GIC · Wholesale-Industrial Machinery & Equipment · Port Washington, NY · filing with the SEC since 1996
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◀ Past 7.3● Present 6.3▶ Future 6.1

Patents

US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026

38 patents granted to the name below, as the owner printed on each patent when it was granted. A later sale, a lapse or an expiry is not read, so this is what was granted to Global Industrial Company’s names, not what it holds today.

Patents granted
38
29 design, 9 utility, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
none
in the last year the record reads
Applications published
0
since 2001, to Dec 31, 2025
Names they are printed under
1
a subsidiary
By yearGrantedApplications published
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Each pair is one calendar year. Applications are published about eighteen months after filing, so the newest years read low.
Under which name1 counted
GLOBAL EQUIPMENT COMPANY INC. a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
38 granted
0 published
Names not counted (1)
Global Industrial Distribution Inc.
Only generic words.
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
GrantedPatentTitleFieldOwner as printed
Sep 12, 20179,757,734Portable feed mill apparatusChemical engineeringGLOBAL EQUIPMENT COMPANY INC.
Jul 4, 20179,693,534Calf creep feederOther special machinesGLOBAL EQUIPMENT COMPANY INC.
Sep 18, 20128,266,926Cigarette urn having compact storage stateOther consumer goodsGLOBAL EQUIPMENT COMPANY INC.
Feb 22, 2011D632,900Shop desk with hutchGLOBAL EQUIPMENT COMPANY INC.
Oct 19, 2010D625,533Shop desk with hutchGLOBAL EQUIPMENT COMPANY INC.
Sep 21, 20107,798,580Mobile computer security cartFurniture, gamesGLOBAL EQUIPMENT COMPANY INC.
Aug 17, 2010D621,998Cigarette urnGLOBAL EQUIPMENT COMPANY INC.
May 25, 2010D616,602Cigarette urnGLOBAL EQUIPMENT COMPANY INC.
May 25, 2010D616,230Peg board for shop desk having a hutchGLOBAL EQUIPMENT COMPANY INC.
May 18, 2010D615,785Top of a shop desk with hutchGLOBAL EQUIPMENT COMPANY INC.

A patent is counted where the owner printed on it when it was granted carries the company’s own name, a former name, the name of a subsidiary its annual report lists, or its own name with a patent-holding phrase (Technology Licensing, Intellectual Property and the like), once the legal form, case and punctuation are set aside, and prints a country that name counts in. PatentsView’s data are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Source: PatentsView's granted patents and pre-grant publications, disambiguated, from the USPTO's Open Data Portal, through Dec 31, 2025, read Oct 27, 2026.

SI Assistanton GIC · research, not advice