I am looking for data on a company called Prout,USA.LLC based in Las
Vegas, Nevada and in the intellectual property/patent business. I am
looking for financial data, history of company, reputation,
accomplishments.

Jerry,

Thanks for your question.  I'm going to go out on a limb here with my
answer and say the odds are awfully good that there is no such
company, at least one that wants to be found.  Either that, or it is
so new as there is not yet any public record of significance.

There IS a company called Prout USA, but it's in Maryland, and it
sells boats. There is also a private citizen with the last name of
Prout in the Las Vegas phone book.

As for Prout LLC, or Prout USA, or anything similar anywhere in
Nevada:

There's no listing in Dun & Bradstreet.

There's no listing in AT&T Yellow Pages (by company name or type of
business).

There's no listing in any business White Pages.

There's no listing in the SEC data base.  

There's no listing in Nevada 411 information -- I called!

However, the SEC does have something remotely related -- a fellow with
the last name of Prouty, and who has a Las Vegas address, is
affiliated with several companies, mostly in investment services in
states other than Nevada.

Hence, my conclusion that this company isn't quite as substantial as
one would expect a business enterprise to be.

If you have ANY MORE DETAILS about the company -- for instance, how
you came across the name in the first place --  please let me know,
and I'll continue searching.

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Clarification of Answer by davidsar-ga on 21 Jun 2002 16:44 PDT

I forgot to mention:  nor are there any news articles or business site
hits on this company name.

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Clarification of Answer by davidsar-ga on 21 Jun 2002 17:57 PDT

Holy Moley!  Hat's off to Missy for finding what I'm sure did not
exist.  This listing is not even available from the Dun & Bradstreet
site, yet somehow it shows up on Hoovers' listing of D&B names...go
figure!  It reinforces the sense I had that is a brand new company,
but who knows for sure.

Anyway, there's no ready way for me to withdraw my answer from my end,
but it is certainly an option (an an understandable one!) for you to
reject the answer from your end.

why you want the companys data, ITS HIGHLY CONFIDENTIOL.

YOU WILL BE SUED IF YOU PLAY CHEAP TRICKS LIKE THIS

Hi Jerry, 

I searched for all companies with "Prout" and "LLC" in the name, in
Nevada, at Hoover's Online (http://www.hoovers.com).

Hoover's returned a sole hit - contact information for the company,
via the Dun & Bradstreet Reports:

PROUT LLC
1640 ALTA DR STE 12
LAS VEGAS, NV 89106

The link to the D&B page is here (I fed it to MakeAShorterLink.com
first, it's frightfully long):

Dun & Bradstreet, via Hoover's
http://makeashorterlink.com/?X22315C11

According to this page, the full D&B report is not complete, but you
can initiate an update by calling 1-800-234-3867.

I'm afraid I wasn't able to find any other listings for the company -
perhaps writing directly to the address might yield a bit more
information?

Sorry I couldn't give you a little more.

missy-ga

Hello,

Too bad I didn't get to this one first...

From the Nevada Secretary of State
(http://sos.state.nv.us/default.asp), I got the following information:

Prout LLC was incorporated on Sept. 28, 2000. Its resident agent and
manager is Kent Naka. Another listed manager is Yoshihoko Hyakytake.
The business address listed for both is 1640 Alta Drive Suite 12, Las
Vegas, NV 89016.

Kent Naka incorporated Naka Enterprises LLC, also based in Las Vegas,
a week after incorporating Prout LLC.

A second company, Prout Investments LLC, was incorporated on Dec. 31,
1998, by Deanna Aiken of Genoa, Nevada. However, its incorporation has
been revoked, and you weren't looking for an investment firm, anyway.

This information is completely public and not confidential.

I'm not supposed to give out personal information, but it does not
matter, because I did not find any on Mr. Naka or Mr. Hyakytake. You
can call the Las Vegas Library at (702) 507-3500 to see if they have
any newspaper references to them or their company.

Good luck.

Hi again, Jerry!

A colleague tipped me off to a search site, and I managed to get a
little more information for you:

For PROUT LLC:

Type: Limited Liability Company
File Number: LLC9374-2000
State: NEVADA
Incorporated On: September 28, 2000

Resident Agent: KENT NAKA (Accepted)
Manager or Member:HISASHI KATOH
Manager or Member:YOSHIHOKO HYAKUTAKE

(Business address is the same as that listed in my comment above.)

Mr. Naka appears to own another business as well, Naka Enterprises,
LLC, also in Las Vegas.

The information was found through the Nevada Secretary of State
Corporate Information Search:

http://sos.state.nv.us/corpsrch.asp 

(Many thanks to juggler-ga for pointing me to the site.)

I hope this provides a few more clues!

missy-ga

Just a grin at mwalcoff-ga...looks like I was typing just as you were
posting!  Nicely done.