Single value postage dispensing apparatus
CA 2111288 C · Owner: Pitney Bowes Inc. · Inventors: Manduley, Flavio M.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
The invention is concerned with a low cost postage value generating apparatus of simple construct wherein the number of postage imprints are determined rather than an accounting of the postage dispensed. The apparatus is a single value postage generating device and as such is able to print only one value. Because of this the number of, imprints gives a representation of the total postage value dispensed.
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Why it's free to use
- Filed December 13, 1993 and granted July 1, 1997. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended December 13, 2013.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by December 13, 2015.
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