Automated accounting for business reply mail
CA 2436775 A1 · Owner: Young, Wanda E. · Inventors: Van Ness, George L.; Young, Wanda E.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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Methods and systems are provided for automating an accounting process for business reply mail (BRM). The process may enable a mailer to create a BRM mailpiece marked with a unique code which is provided to a responder. The responder may send the BRM mailpiece to the mailer without adding postage to the BRM mailpiece. A service provide may read the bar code to determine the mailer, deliver the BRM mailpiece to the mailer and then bill the mailer for , the postage.
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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 January 31, 2002. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended January 31, 2022.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by January 31, 2024.
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