Ergonomic hand-held shopping basket
CA 2229191 C · Owner: Flink, Christopher M. · Inventors: Flink, Christopher M.
Overview
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A stackable shopping basket in which the proximal side wall is inwardly curved in a contour adapted to an adult human user's body. The opposite or distal side wall may also be curved with a contour that is symmetrical with the, proximate side wall. The side walls and end walls have an outwardly-turned peripheral top edge forming a lip, the lip being extended downward along at least a portion of the proximal side wall to form a cushion portion. Stand-off fins sire provided along the periphery of the basket between the lip and the end, walls and side walls other than the cushion portion. A centrally located handle, projects from the bottom of the basket and defines a channel through the …
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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 March 11, 1998 and granted March 6, 2001. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended March 11, 2018.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by March 11, 2020.
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