Printing black and white reproducible color documents
CA 2216348 C · Owner: Harrington, Steven J. · Inventors: Taber, Jean A.; Harrington, Steven J.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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A color image is reproduced with a set of colors wherein each color is defined in terms of a pattern block. Pattern blocks include a pattern using the color to be reproduced and white in density-related combinations so that the luminance difference between the color and white can be retained when copied or printed with a black printer. The patterns add among colors thus allowing combination colors to be represented in terms of added patterns of colors represented in black as distinct patterns.
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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 September 23, 1997 and granted September 10, 2002. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended September 23, 2017.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by September 23, 2019.
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