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Limited use combined mailer and video cassette and method of forming same

CA 2068738 C · Owner: Klupt, Carle D. · Inventors: Klupt, Carle D.

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A disposable video cassette for rotatably mounting a pair of reels for a recording tape in juxtaposition to allow transfer of the tape from one reel to the other as they are rotated in unison when the cassette is operating in a video, cassette recorder (VCR) has a housing formed from a position of a singly flat paperboard blank having plural cutouts and fold lines for mounting the reels and accommodating rotation therein, for loading the cassette directly into the VCR. A pair of the cutouts is spaced apart in one side of the housing to expose the respective rotational driving mechanisms of the pair of reels in the, housing, for mating with the driving mechanism of the VCR when the …

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  • Filed November 21, 1990 and granted August 29, 2000. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended November 21, 2010.
  • A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by November 21, 2012.
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FiledNovember 21, 1990
GrantedAugust 29, 2000
Term endedNovember 21, 2010
Patent numberCA 2068738 C
Classification (IPC)G11B23/08 +1 more

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1991199319951997199920012003200520072009Application filedNov 21, 1990Patent grantedAug 29, 2000Term endedNov 21, 2010

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