Equipment shelf
CA 2035796 C · Owner: Nortel Networks Corporation · Inventors: Brown, David Charles
Overview
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Abstract of the Disclosure An equipment shelf includes circuit board slides being arranged to support edges of circuit boards whereby the circuit boards are removably retained in a system. First and second end panels are fixed in a spaced apart relationship by a pair of front cross connecting members and by a pair of rear cross connecting members. Each of the circuit board slides is carried between an inner edge of a front cross connecting member and an inner side of a rear cross connecting member. As each board slide is overlapped by only one of the cross connecting members, the cross connecting members are more widely spaced from front to back than would otherwise be the case, whereby …
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- Filed February 6, 1991 and granted October 19, 1993. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended February 6, 2011.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by February 6, 2013.
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