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Color-coded numeric or alphabetic filing system

CA 1184091 A · Owner: Cunningham, Walter F. · Inventors: Cunningham, Walter F.

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There is disclosed herein a color-coded filing system for uniquely identifying documents to be filed and retrieved. The document to be filed has sequential filing characters applied along the top and side edges thereof. Marker tabs are provided which are pressure sensitive adhesive-backed and transparent and have a colored peripheral border that defines a two-position transparent aperture. A positively applied filing character is provided in the first position of the tab aperture and the second position of the marker tab is blank. The marker tabs can be applied over the filing characters on said document so that the characters on the document appear in the second position of said aperture …

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  • Granted March 19, 1985. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended March 19, 2002.
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FiledSeptember 24, 1981
GrantedMarch 19, 1985
Term endedMarch 19, 2002
Patent numberCA 1184091 A
Classification (IPC)B42F21/02 +1 more

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1982198519881991199419972000Application filedSep 24, 1981Patent grantedMarch 19, 1985Term endedMarch 19, 2002

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