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Hand tool with depth adjuster

EP 0109666 B1 · Applicant: HILTI Aktiengesellschaft

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Listed from its EPO record in Patent Yard's archive of European patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the EPO PDF and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.

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  • Filed November 17, 1983 and granted August 27, 1986. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended November 17, 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 17, 2009.
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FiledNovember 17, 1983
PublishedMay 30, 1984
GrantedAugust 27, 1986
Term endedNovember 17, 2003
Application numberEP 83111513
Classification (CPC)B25B23/00 +1 more

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1984198619881990199219941996199820002002Application filedNov 17, 1983PublishedMay 30, 1984Patent grantedAug 27, 1986Term endedNov 17, 2003

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