An automatic telephone answering apparatus
CA 2016560 C · Owner: Nishimura, Hiroshi · Inventors: Nishimura, Hiroshi; Mita, Satoshi; Nakano, Yoshitomo
Overview
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An automatic telephone answering apparatus which is capable of selecting a new outgoing message or an old outgoing message prior to recording of the new message so as to preserve the selected message on the recording medium.
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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 May 11, 1990 and granted February 15, 2000. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended May 11, 2010.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by May 11, 2012.
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