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Pick-up head for moving a sheet of material

EP 0109080 B1 · Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation

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  • Filed November 14, 1983 and granted July 22, 1987. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended November 14, 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 May 14, 2009.
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FiledNovember 14, 1983
PublishedMay 23, 1984
GrantedJuly 22, 1987
Term endedNovember 14, 2003
Application numberEP 83111346
Classification (CPC)H10P72/78

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1984198619881990199219941996199820002002Application filedNov 14, 1983PublishedMay 23, 1984Patent grantedJuly 22, 1987Term endedNov 14, 2003

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