Basketball net
CA 2305607 A1 · Owner: Bourdages, Richard · Inventors: Bourdages, Richard
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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The present device involves a basketball net modified to include elastic fibers that both narrow the, circumference as well as add rigidity to the overall structure of the modified net. The modified, net can be used to support an image only on the exterior face of the net and in a manner that, could not be supported by an ordinary basketball net. As the ball passes freely through the, constricted net, the net expands causing the image to enlarge and become more visible. The, kinetic effect of the ball expanding the net as it passes through renders the , image more noticeable, because: (i) the eye is drawn to the net when the ball passes through; (ii) the image becomes, enlarged in …
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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 April 12, 2000. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended April 12, 2020.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by April 12, 2022.
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