Thermoplastic photodegradable and biodegradable polymer blend
CA 2178319 A1 · Owner: Minister Of National Defence · Inventors: Koutsandreas, Andy; Foster, Terry; Gnatowski, Marek Jan
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
A photodegradable and fully biodegradable plastic material which can be , molded using conventional molding techniques and which has good physical and mechanical properties includes a blend of polyisoprene and polycaprolactone resins. The material biodegrades in soil and sea water environments. All blend ingredients are completely decomposed by microorganisms. Polyisoprene is a natural polymer present in a large variety of plant species or is man made. Polycaprolactone is a synthetic polymer resin known to be decomposed by microorganisms. The plastic material has thermoplastic properties which permits processing of the material using conventional plastic-working techniques. The …
Read the whole patent
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 December 10, 1993. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended December 10, 2013.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by December 10, 2015.
- We check Canadian rights only. A patent in its family in another country could still be in force: check its family on Google Patents.
Timeline
Timeline From CIPO dates
Sources & verification
Official CIPO records
Everything on this page comes from the CIPO record linked above. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.