Footwear to enhance natural gait
CA 2455735 A1 · Owner: Barefoot Science Technologies Inc. · Inventors: Burke, Robert G.; Gardiner, Roy J. W.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
A novel article of footwear that acts to strengthen the foot through biofeedback, reduces stresses on the foot that occur during impact through novel midsole/outsole design characteristics and enhances the foot's ability , to pre-stabilize itself prior to striking the ground by utilizing the foot's "Windlass Effect".
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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 August 9, 2002. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended August 9, 2022.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by August 9, 2024.
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