article_snippet.sent: Mr Ueda patent ran out in 2003, however, so Mr Ueda has not benefited from the recent boom.
article_snippet.sent: Instead Canadian inventor Wayne Fromm developed a hand-held extendable selfie stick in the early 2000s, which Canadian inventor Wayne Fromm called the Quik Pod.
article_snippet.sent: While Canadian inventor Wayne Fromm product has sold well, there are many others available.
article_snippet.sent: I patented about 300 ideas, so that was just one of those things.
highlights_snippet.sent: But the idea was not a commercial success and the patent ran out in 2003 .