Method of personalizing and identifying communications
CA 2475322 C · Owner: Spaey, Frederic A. J. · Inventors: Spaey, Frederic A. J.; West, Stuart J.; Wouters, Marc-Henri J. M. A.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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What is disclosed is a method of creating and distributing works of art that takes advantage of the possibilities of duplication and distribution offered by modern computing and telecommunication while preserving the rights of the , authors. Unique versions of a work of art are generated from a source variable work of art such that each unique version is perceptibly different from all other unique versions of the work of art. Unique versions can then be distributed to specific users so that specific unique versions are associated with specific unique versions. In the event a unique version is improperly shared, the user associated with the improperly shared unique version can be …
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Why it's free to use
- Filed February 7, 2003 and granted August 7, 2012. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended February 7, 2023.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by February 7, 2025.
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