Expired European patentEurope
Circular knitting machine for making high-pile knitwear
EP 0176809 B1 · Applicant: Sulzer Morat GmbH
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- Filed September 9, 1985 and granted January 25, 1989. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended September 9, 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 March 9, 2011.
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FiledSeptember 9, 1985
PublishedApril 9, 1986
GrantedJanuary 25, 1989
Term endedSeptember 9, 2005
Application numberEP 85111350
Classification (CPC)D04B9/14
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