Ready-tear packaging
CA 2080274 C · Owner: Sodap · Inventors: Meilhon, Daniel
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
The invention provides a group packaging useful for bundling with improved ease of opening consisting of a shrinkable thermoplastics film including a tear initiator in the form of a tab or the like oriented in a direction substantially perpendicular to the direction of extrusion of the film the tear, initiator preferably comprising two tabs arranged back-to-back in a generally H shaped configuration.
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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 October 9, 1992 and granted January 12, 1999. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended October 9, 2012.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by October 9, 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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