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Coin tester for coins of varying diameters

EP 0023965 B1 · Applicant: ASCOM AUTELCA AG

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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.

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  • Filed June 30, 1980 and granted November 2, 1983. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended June 30, 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 December 30, 2005.
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FiledJune 30, 1980
PublishedFebruary 18, 1981
GrantedNovember 2, 1983
Term endedJune 30, 2000
Application numberEP 80103695
Classification (CPC)G07D5/02 +1 more

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1981198319851987198919911993199519971999Application filedJune 30, 1980PublishedFeb 18, 1981Patent grantedNov 2, 1983Term endedJune 30, 2000

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