Patent Yard Sign in
Expired European patentEurope

Layered synthetic resin-aluminium tube

EP 0151978 B1 · Applicant: MEPA Gesellschaft für Metall- und Plastik-Verpackungen mbH

EPO PDF

Overview

The published document from the EPO: abstract, claims, description and drawings. Open it full size

Read the whole patent

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.

Why it's free to use

  • Filed January 24, 1985 and granted July 27, 1988. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended January 24, 2005.
  • 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 July 24, 2010.
  • We check European rights only. A US or other national patent in its family could still be in force: check its family on Espacenet or Google Patents.
FiledJanuary 24, 1985
PublishedAugust 21, 1985
GrantedJuly 27, 1988
Term endedJanuary 24, 2005
Application numberEP 85100697
Classification (CPC)B32B15/08 +1 more

Timeline

Timeline From EPO dates

1986198819901992199419961998200020022004Application filedJan 24, 1985PublishedAug 21, 1985Patent grantedJuly 27, 1988Term endedJan 24, 2005

Sources & verification