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Metal wire tensioning device

EP 0100256 B1 · Applicant: VAGUM Société Civile Particulière

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  • Filed July 5, 1983 and granted May 31, 1989. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended July 5, 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 January 5, 2009.
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FiledJuly 5, 1983
PublishedFebruary 8, 1984
GrantedMay 31, 1989
Term endedJuly 5, 2003
Application numberEP 83401384
Classification (CPC)F16G11/12

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1984198619881990199219941996199820002002Application filedJuly 5, 1983PublishedFeb 8, 1984Patent grantedMay 31, 1989Term endedJuly 5, 2003

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