Golf ball
CA 2060679 C · Owner: Callaway Golf Company · Inventors: Stiefel, Joseph F.; Melvin, Terence; Molitor, Robert P.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
A golf ball of improved playing characteristics weighing no more than 1.62 ounces and having a mean outside diameter of at least 1.70 inches. A dimple pattern on the surface of the ball may include a plurality of dimples which have different diameters. The dimples cover at least 70% of the surface of the ball.
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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 February 5, 1992 and granted April 1, 1997. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended February 5, 2012.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by February 5, 2014.
- We check Canadian rights only. A patent in its family in another country could still be in force: check its family on Google Patents.
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Sources & verification
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