Prepaid card
CA 2270399 C · Owner: Ramsburg, Douglas · Inventors: Dalgauer, Don; Nassoiy, Stephen R.; Wantz, John L.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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Debit cards, such as long distance telephone cards may be attractively , packaged and even readily mounted for point of purchase display in such a , manner that the card is inactive until activated at the point of purchase. The card may be activated at the point of purchase without the necessity of in any way opening up the attractive packaging or moving any portion of the , packaging out of the way and by merely "swiping" the card while still mounted in the package through a conventional card reader. The card is mounted between first and second panels of primarily cellulose material including an area significantly greater than that of the card with the card magnetic strip , completely …
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Why it's free to use
- Filed December 15, 1997 and granted May 7, 2002. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended December 15, 2017.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by December 15, 2019.
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