Finger tips
CA 2310117 A1 · Owner: Lam, Lensley · Inventors: Lam, Lensley
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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Used for playing stringed instruments, "Finger Tips" are string-sensitive finger picks which, fit under and around the finger nail and are held in place with a band that wraps around the finger, tip. The part that is meant to make contact with the string is also the part that , is making contact with the user's fingernail, thus transferring/directing the sensation of the string to the user's finger, via the finger nail - as opposed to finger picks currently on the market which displace the feeling of, the string through the band and away from the tip of the finger an area which , is naturally used for, plucking strings.
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Why it's free to use
- Filed June 7, 2000. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended June 7, 2020.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by June 7, 2022.
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