Emotional expression character
CA 2234160 A1 · Owner: Long, Jennifer M. · Inventors: Long, Jennifer M.; Cimerman, Christopher D.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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A child's toy is disclosed that provides for a character that is capable of both visually and audibly displaying a variety of emotional expressions and which is capable of providing these displays in combination with playing a "peek-a-boo" game with the toy character. The toy has a housing that is shaped like a teddy bear, with openings for the bear's eyes and mouth and a pair of paws that rotate to a position where both paws cover the eyes of the bear when mechanically activated by the child. The paws are mechanically interconnected to a disk mounted within the housing which contains different representations for the eyes and the mouth of the bear each of which is configured to , …
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Why it's free to use
- Filed August 12, 1997. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended August 12, 2017.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by August 12, 2019.
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