Biological specimen cassette
CA 2280497 C · Owner: Bertin, Yanick · Inventors: Lafond, Andre; Bertin, Yanick
Overview
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A biological specimen cassette adapted to be installed with similarly constructed cassettes as a package in a cassette dispenser from which cassettes are thereafter dispensed individually comprises a channel formed in at least one of its walls to receive a connecting element such as, band, string or wire, which, when engaged to all cassettes form a collective, stacked arrangement of cassettes which is insertable into the cassette dispenser. Once received in the dispenser the connecting element is then, retrieved so that individual cassettes may be individually dispensed.
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Why it's free to use
- Filed August 19, 1999 and granted December 9, 2003. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended August 19, 2019.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by August 19, 2021.
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