Ecomcard
CA 2308161 A1 · Owner: Unknown · Inventors: Unknown
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
A method and apparatus for the transmission of monetary value and payment of debts, comprised of a card upon which has imprinted upon its front the name of, the issuer and a multiple digit number and which stores the quantum of money with which the bearer of the card has pre-purchased from the issuer on an electronic strip on the obverse side and which is debited when the card is either run, through a machine "reader" or when the multiple-digit number is given to a creditor of the bearer orally or in writing. The card may be any size and thickness and the multiple-digit number may be any length, but the utility of the apparatus will be greatest when it resembles the, dimensions of a …
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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 May 11, 2000. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended May 11, 2020.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by May 11, 2022.
- We check Canadian rights only. A patent in its family in another country could still be in force: check its family on Google Patents.
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