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Punching device

EP 0003868 A1 · Applicant: Purpose Engineers Limited

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Listed from its EPO record in Patent Yard's archive of European patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the EPO PDF and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.

Why it's free to use

  • Filed January 18, 1979 and never granted as a European patent. Had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended January 18, 1999.
  • A supplementary protection certificate, which can extend a medicine or crop-protection patent, adds at most five and a half years, so even that would have ended by July 18, 2004.
  • We check European rights only. A US or other national patent in its family could still be in force: check its family on Espacenet or Google Patents.
FiledJanuary 18, 1979
PublishedSeptember 5, 1979
GrantedNever granted
Term endedJanuary 18, 1999
Application numberEP 79300090
Classification (CPC)B21J15/14 +2 more

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1980198219841986198819901992199419961998Application filedJan 18, 1979PublishedSep 5, 1979Term endedJan 18, 1999

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