Tamper-evident, flexible, reclosable packages
CA 2019761 C · Owner: Oscar Mayer Foods Corporation · Inventors: Thiemann, Daniel A.; Wells, Cindy M.; Hustad, Gerald O.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
A reclosable, hermetically-sealed flexible package which has an inner, hermetic peelable seal and a reclosure seal, typically including interlocking closure strips, is provided with one or more of various tamper-evident features which provide an easily visible and noticeable indication of disruption thereof of the type that would gain access to the reclosure seal.
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Why it's free to use
- Filed June 25, 1990 and granted April 25, 2000. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended June 25, 2010.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by June 25, 2012.
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