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Load pick-up coupling device

EP 0167041 B1 · Applicant: CHAPMAN, Claude Louis

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  • Filed December 10, 1980 and granted September 7, 1988. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended December 10, 2000.
  • 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 June 10, 2006.
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FiledDecember 10, 1980
PublishedJanuary 8, 1986
GrantedSeptember 7, 1988
Term endedDecember 10, 2000
Application numberEP 85107361
Classification (CPC)H02G1/04

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1981198319851987198919911993199519971999Application filedDec 10, 1980PublishedJan 8, 1986Patent grantedSep 7, 1988Term endedDec 10, 2000

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