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Ok a bit of searching on the Scoop uncovered this! http://www.cricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/152300.html

"Then, in 1974, the long-established bat-makers, Gray-Nicolls, cautiously introduced a bat which they probably feared would offend many traditionalists. The bat, which could be called by no other name than the Scoop, drew its inspiration from the heel-and-toe-weighted golf putter invented by a South African, Dr Arthur Garner. An Englishman named Barry Wheeler, who had some knowledge of physics and was also the agent for an American golf-ball manufacturer, concluded that the perimeter-weighting principle could be applied equally well to cricket bats."

I think Barry may have been the ideas man!!!! 

John Newbery and another have the dyna drive patent under there name http://www.freepatentsonline.com/4186923.pdf

but I can't find the Scoop though :-(  John Newbery is still the best bat maker to have ever lived in my opinion

Yep, something I forgot whilst I was ranting about baseball the swing speed of a lighter bat.

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The original scoop patent number is GB1391120, and was filed in 1972. The inventors are Barry Wheeler and Arthur Garner, and its main claim was maximum thickness at the edges.  Garner and John Newbery then filed another patent in 1977 where the claim is 'back of blade with depressions...and maximum thickness in the region of the sweet spot', which we all know makes more sense.