Ceiling panel
CA 2279150 C · Owner: Armstrong World Industries, Inc. · Inventors: Bodine, Darryl C.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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A ceiling panel that conceals the grid in a suspended ceiling, having opposed active edges with profiles different from one another, and opposed passive edges. Kerfs at different levels in the active edges, along with a registration step in one active edge, permit the panel to be inserted, or removed, by successive hinge actions. When installed, the panel is locked to the ceiling with no visual indications on how the panel can be removed.
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- Filed July 30, 1999 and granted December 2, 2003. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended July 30, 2019.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by July 30, 2021.
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