Expired European patentEurope
Tool holder
EP 0027808 B1 · Applicant: TRELOAR, Howard Archibald
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 April 16, 1980 and granted August 15, 1984. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended April 16, 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 October 16, 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.
FiledApril 16, 1980
PublishedMay 6, 1981
GrantedAugust 15, 1984
Term endedApril 16, 2000
Application numberEP 80900759
Classification (CPC)B23B29/043
Timeline
Timeline From EPO dates
Sources & verification
Official EPO records
Everything on this page comes from the EPO record linked above. EPO data used under CC BY 4.0.