Patient's gown
CA 2013765 C · Owner: Janzen, Virginia · Inventors: Janzen, Bertha; Janzen, Virginia
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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A patient gown has a body with two arm openings and a neck opening. A front panel or bodice extends downwardly from the neck opening with its side edges providing the front edge of the arm openings. Two bell sleeves extend outwardly over the arm openings and are secured to the body along the rear edges of the arm openings only. The front edges of the sleeves are releasably connected to the side edges of the bodice by releasable snaps so that the bodice can be dropped partially or fully on one or both sides. This provides partial or complete access to the patient chest area while maintaining as much body coverage as possible for the patient's dignity. The openings in the gown are coded to …
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Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Filed April 3, 1990 and granted March 26, 2002. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended April 3, 2010.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by April 3, 2012.
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