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Key-operated locking device

EP 0145765 A1 · Applicant: WILMOT BREEDEN LIMITED

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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 June 12, 1984 and never granted as a European patent. Had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended June 12, 2004.
  • 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 12, 2009.
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FiledJune 12, 1984
PublishedJune 26, 1985
GrantedNever granted
Term endedJune 12, 2004
Application numberEP 84902461
Classification (CPC)E05B49/008

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1985198719891991199319951997199920012003Application filedJune 12, 1984PublishedJune 26, 1985Term endedJune 12, 2004

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