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Starter for an internal-combustion engine

EP 0098992 B1 · Applicant: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH

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  • Filed June 16, 1983 and granted September 24, 1986. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended June 16, 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 16, 2008.
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FiledJune 16, 1983
PublishedJanuary 25, 1984
GrantedSeptember 24, 1986
Term endedJune 16, 2003
Application numberEP 83105919
Classification (CPC)F02N15/06

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1984198619881990199219941996199820002002Application filedJune 16, 1983PublishedJan 25, 1984Patent grantedSep 24, 1986Term endedJune 16, 2003

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