Instant lottery ticket
CA 2572254 A1 · Owner: Pollard Banknote Limited Partnership · Inventors: Besleaga, Marian
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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The invention refers to a lottery ticket containing a crosswords puzzle square, destined to the public as an instructive-educational and recreational game, in order to obtain certain immediate gains in cash or in objects as well as an advertising means. The lottery ticket is presented under the form of a plane support (1) having pre-printed on a side of the square (2) of crosswords puzzle, proposed for solving. In a field (h) are pre-printed definitions (i) that are covered by a screen-layer (j) opaque, containing an inscription , "grate here!!" On the same side the solution to the square (m) is printed at a , much reduced scale, in normal position or rotated by 90~ or by 180~. The …
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Why it's free to use
- Filed June 23, 2003. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended June 23, 2023.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by June 23, 2025.
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