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Apparatus for and method of picking up and conveying cut crop

EP 0061230 B1 · Applicant: NATIONAL RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION

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  • Filed March 30, 1979 and granted October 15, 1986. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended March 30, 1999.
  • 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 30, 2004.
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FiledMarch 30, 1979
PublishedSeptember 29, 1982
GrantedOctober 15, 1986
Term endedMarch 30, 1999
Application numberEP 82200540
Classification (CPC)A01D43/10

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1980198219841986198819901992199419961998Application filedMarch 30, 1979PublishedSep 29, 1982Patent grantedOct 15, 1986Term endedMarch 30, 1999

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