Unsweetened, frozen, tea beverage concentrates
CA 2093499 C · Owner: Kraft General Foods, Inc. · Inventors: Gale, Robert R.; Murray, Douglas E.; Wansor, Gerard J.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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Unsweetened tea beverage concentrates containing from 0.5 to 10% by weight of tea solids are made freeze-thaw stable (i.e. resistant to the formation of insoluble particles) by the addition of at least 2% preferably, 2 to 4%, by weight of water-soluble carbohydrate materials, such as sugars and/or hydrolyzed starch solids.
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Why it's free to use
- Filed April 6, 1993 and granted July 1, 2003. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended April 6, 2013.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by April 6, 2015.
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