Collapsible camera
CA 2029563 C · Owner: Polaroid Corporation · Inventors: Douglas, Lawrence M.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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A camera including a plurality of housings pivotally coupled to each other for mvement from a collapsed compact position in which a subject may be framed in a viewfinder of the camera to an erected, position during which an exposure of the subject may be made and, then returned to their original collapsed position. The movement of the housings from the collapsed to the erected and then back to the collapsed position is in response to the actuation of the camera's shutter release.
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Why it's free to use
- Filed November 8, 1990 and granted January 30, 2001. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended November 8, 2010.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by November 8, 2012.
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