Expired European patentEurope
Device for coupling and uncoupling missiles to or from other missiles or carrier aircraft
EP 0021870 B1 · Applicant: THOMSON-BRANDT
Overview
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Why it's free to use
- Filed May 14, 1980 and granted January 11, 1984. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended May 14, 2000.
- 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 14, 2005.
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FiledMay 14, 1980
PublishedJanuary 7, 1981
GrantedJanuary 11, 1984
Term endedMay 14, 2000
Application numberEP 80400672
Classification (CPC)F41F3/052 +2 more
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