Optical fibre cable
CA 2019902 C · Owner: Stc Plc · Inventors: Summers, Andrew; Sutehall, Ralph
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
An optical fibre cable has a channel (2) loosely housing an optical ribbon element (3) arid a non-optical ribbon element (3A) which both have an evenly distributed excess length of between 0.5% and 1% and adopt a regular undulating configuration in a thixotropic water blocking gel (28) in the channel.
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Why it's free to use
- Filed June 27, 1990 and granted April 2, 2002. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended June 27, 2010.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by June 27, 2012.
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