Method of ordering custom graphic kits for motor vehicles
CA 2350265 A1 · Owner: Ford Motor Company · Inventors: Fike, Craig
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
A method of ordering customer-designed graphic kits for motor vehicles includes a customer deciding to purchase a customdesigned graphic kit, a computer connected to the Internet or provider's Intranet, graphic kit design software linking the, Vehicle Identification Number to each custom design applying the, graphic kit design to the virtual vehicle and electronically sending it to the relevant parties, filtering each design for obscenity or franchise violations, determining the installation location, installing the graphic kit and delivering the motor vehicle to the customer.
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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 June 12, 2001. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended June 12, 2021.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by June 12, 2023.
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