Three-dimensional laminate
CA 2353025 A1 · Owner: Armstrong World Industries, Inc. · Inventors: Desantis, Craig W.; Wright, Ralph W. Jr.; Eshbach, John R. Jr.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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Disclosed are both a decorative laminate and a method for making the decorative laminate. The decorative laminate includes a laminated layer having particulates trapped within a film. The trapped particulates impart the appearance, of three-dimensional depth to the decorative laminate. Additionally a second, laminated film having a printed pattern can be laminated to the decorative laminate.
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Why it's free to use
- Filed July 10, 2001. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended July 10, 2021.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by July 10, 2023.
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