Resealable food container
CA 2463215 C · Owner: Intercontinental Great Brands Llc · Inventors: Flynn, Charles Francis Iv; Peters, Eva Marie; Mandle, James Spencer
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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A container for a food product includes a wrapper which surround a frame. The container can be any polygonal shape which is defined by the shape of the frame The , wrapper forms a top of the container which has an access opening. A sealing layer is , adhesively seated to the top around the opening. The sealing layer is resealable when , a tab of the sealing layer is pulled back. The sealing layer is resealable against the top , layer to seal the opening when the sealing layer is moved back to a flat position an the , top. Various tamper-evident structures are provided to indicate when the container has , been initially opened or tampered with.
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- Filed April 5, 2004 and granted September 24, 2013. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended April 5, 2024.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by April 5, 2026.
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