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A dental implement for removing plaque and massaging gums

EP 0052353 B1 · Applicant: AuBEX CORPORATION

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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 November 12, 1981 and granted May 13, 1987. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended November 12, 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 May 12, 2007.
  • 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.
FiledNovember 12, 1981
PublishedMay 26, 1982
GrantedMay 13, 1987
Term endedNovember 12, 2001
Application numberEP 81109659
Classification (CPC)A46B3/00 +2 more

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1982198419861988199019921994199619982000Application filedNov 12, 1981PublishedMay 26, 1982Patent grantedMay 13, 1987Term endedNov 12, 2001

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