Expired European patentEurope
Contactor, particularly a power or control or starter contactor
EP 0036432 B1 · Applicant: Square D Starkstrom GmbH
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- Filed March 13, 1980 and granted December 19, 1984. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended March 13, 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 September 13, 2005.
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FiledMarch 13, 1980
PublishedSeptember 30, 1981
GrantedDecember 19, 1984
Term endedMarch 13, 2000
Application numberEP 80101314
Classification (CPC)H01H50/546
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