Hideaway support
CA 2385223 C · Owner: Gilbert, Jean · Inventors: Gilbert, Jean
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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A retractable support enabling an object to be inclined or elevated and encased into its surface thus becoming a complementary component part. The support which is characterised by its thinness makes it appropriate for being integrated into small portable objects such as calculators and pocket computers or to objects with rigid articulated covers such as a ring binder or a book without greatly affecting the physical characteristics of the object such as its shape sturdiness, simplicity or fabrication cost. It is made of a rigid mobile part alternately combining the support role with that of a peripheral structure and of a flexible strip which are linked over their full width and to the rest …
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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 15, 2002 and granted April 8, 2003. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended May 15, 2022.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by May 15, 2024.
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