Fruit-flavored chewing gum with prolonged flavor intensity
CA 2186458 C · Owner: Broderick, Kevin B. · Inventors: Song, Joo H.; Broderick, Kevin B.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
A free fruit-flavored chewing gum is provided with enhanced long-term flavor intensity without compromising the initial flavor burst and without necessarily relying on encapsulation as a means of flavor enhancement. The free fruit flavor is enhanced by including in the, chewing gum, a sufficient quantity of a restrainer having a Solubility Parameter within 2.0 J/m3 x 10-3 of the Solubility Parameter of the free fruit flavoring agent whose flavor is being enhanced. The free fruit flavoring agent is attracted to and/or attaches to, the water, insoluble restrainer to provide a controlled yet highly efficient, release of flavor during chewing.
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 April 4, 1995 and granted August 10, 1999. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended April 4, 2015.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by April 4, 2017.
- 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.