Patent Yard Sign in
Expired European patentEurope

Method and device for controlling the advance of a tape bearing marks at regular distances

EP 0011595 B1 · Applicant: SAPAL, Société Anonyme des Plieuses Automatiques

EPO PDF

Overview

The published document from the EPO: abstract, claims, description and drawings. Open it full size

Read the whole patent

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 September 28, 1979 and granted October 5, 1983. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended September 28, 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 March 28, 2005.
  • 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.
FiledSeptember 28, 1979
PublishedMay 28, 1980
GrantedOctober 5, 1983
Term endedSeptember 28, 1999
Application numberEP 79810106
Classification (CPC)B26D5/20 +2 more

Timeline

Timeline From EPO dates

1980198219841986198819901992199419961998Application filedSep 28, 1979PublishedMay 28, 1980Patent grantedOct 5, 1983Term endedSep 28, 1999

Sources & verification