Color coded beverage cap collection with permanent passive indicia indicating beverage bottle user identities
CA 2425477 A1 · Owner: Moran, Margaret · Inventors: Moran, Margaret
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A collection of beverage bottles includes respective colorcoded beverage caps. The beverage caps have permanent passive non-verbal indicia indicating the identity of the user of an unencumbered beverage bottle without tangible surface-interfering customized or temporary identifiers, such as tangible surface interfering elements, including stick-on labels customized, beverage can lids, or modified surfaces of beverage containers. The color-coded bottle caps are used as the actual caps for conventional beverage bottles. The color-coded caps do not add cumulative indicia to the bottle caps, in additional to preexisting indicia, such as brand name logos on the bottle caps. Rather, the only …
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- Filed April 14, 2003. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended April 14, 2023.
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