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Servo steering, particularly for motor vehicles

EP 0160639 B1 · Applicant: ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN Aktiengesellschaft

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  • Filed September 28, 1983 and granted April 22, 1987. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended September 28, 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 March 28, 2009.
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FiledSeptember 28, 1983
PublishedNovember 13, 1985
GrantedApril 22, 1987
Term endedSeptember 28, 2003
Application numberEP 83902991
Classification (CPC)B62D6/02

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1984198619881990199219941996199820002002Application filedSep 28, 1983PublishedNov 13, 1985Patent grantedApril 22, 1987Term endedSep 28, 2003

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