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Seal for a rolling bearing unit

EP 0098628 B1 · Applicant: SKF Industrial Trading & Development Co, B.V.

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  • Filed June 6, 1983 and granted November 25, 1987. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended June 6, 2003.
  • 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 6, 2008.
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FiledJune 6, 1983
PublishedJanuary 18, 1984
GrantedNovember 25, 1987
Term endedJune 6, 2003
Application numberEP 83200815
Classification (CPC)F16C33/7889 +2 more

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1984198619881990199219941996199820002002Application filedJune 6, 1983PublishedJan 18, 1984Patent grantedNov 25, 1987Term endedJune 6, 2003

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