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Cargo-handling system in wide-body aircraft

EP 0044404 B1 · Applicant: Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung

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  • Filed June 13, 1981 and granted March 12, 1986. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended June 13, 2001.
  • 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 13, 2006.
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FiledJune 13, 1981
PublishedJanuary 27, 1982
GrantedMarch 12, 1986
Term endedJune 13, 2001
Application numberEP 81104572
Classification (CPC)B64D9/003 +1 more

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1982198419861988199019921994199619982000Application filedJune 13, 1981PublishedJan 27, 1982Patent grantedMarch 12, 1986Term endedJune 13, 2001

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