Apparatus for controlling the motion of an elongated object; case for a tape-like information carrier provided with such apparatus; apparatus for writing, reading or erasing information on a tape-like information carrier contained in such a case

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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 September 30, 1980 and granted July 18, 1984. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended September 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 March 30, 2006.
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