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Improvements in lids for fruit boxes

EP 0005970 A1 · Applicant: Flynn, Richard

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  • Filed May 25, 1979 and never granted as a European patent. Had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended May 25, 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 November 25, 2004.
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FiledMay 25, 1979
PublishedDecember 12, 1979
GrantedNever granted
Term endedMay 25, 1999
Application numberEP 79300944
Classification (CPC)B65D21/0223

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1980198219841986198819901992199419961998Application filedMay 25, 1979PublishedDec 12, 1979Term endedMay 25, 1999

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