Dispenser for disposable cutlery and components therefor
CA 2829524 C · Owner: Dixie Consumer Products Llc · Inventors: Jadin, Timothy D.; Kirkpatrick, Andy L.; Kilgore, Michael R.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
The present invention relates to dispensers for disposable cutlery. The invention also relates to banded packets of disposable cutlery that can be used in the cutlery dispenser of the present invention as well as other cutlery dispensers that do not use a cartridge therein. The present invention also relates to disposable cutlery that has been adapted to make it better suited to stacking such as for use in cutlery dispensers that do not include a cartridge.
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Why it's free to use
- Filed May 4, 2006 and granted June 7, 2016. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended May 4, 2026.
- Certificates of supplementary protection extend only drug patents, and it isn't classified as one.
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