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Television programming apparatus

CA 2097904 A1 · Owner: Wilen, Richard · Inventors: Wilen, Richard

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A multi-sheet overlay is placed over a basic television programs listing. Two of the sheets of the overlay are removably adhered together one sheet being a, transparent sheet and the other being a non-transparent sheet. The non-transparent sheet is selectively kiss-cut so that select section, of the non-transparent sheet may be removed to expose corresponding sections of the transparent sheet and reveal selected sections of the television programs listing. Data is printed on a sheet of the overlay relating to a television system the differs from the basic television listing. By selectively removing kiss-cut sections on the overlay, multiple bits of data may be combined to provide a …

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  • Filed June 7, 1993. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended June 7, 2013.
  • A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by June 7, 2015.
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FiledJune 7, 1993
GrantedNo grant recorded
Term endedJune 7, 2013
Patent numberCA 2097904 A1
Classification (IPC)G09F3/02 +2 more

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