Shower curtain snubber
CA 2080514 C · Owner: Dutka, John · Inventors: Dutka, John
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
A shower curtain is retained against the side of the tub to prevent blowing of the curtain into the tub against an occupant. The retainer or snubber is an elongate line extending from one end of the tub to the other. The line is anchored to the tub enclosure at one end of the tub and may be detachably engaged with a retainer at the opposite end. An additional anchor may be mounted on the wall at the fixed end of the line for storing the line when it is not in use.
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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 14, 1992 and granted January 21, 1997. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended October 14, 2012.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by October 14, 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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