Expired European patentEurope
Airgun
EP 0244467 B1 · Applicant: FORD, John Brian Malpas
Overview
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Why it's free to use
- Filed November 11, 1986 and granted February 7, 1990. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended November 11, 2006.
- 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 May 11, 2012.
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FiledNovember 11, 1986
PublishedNovember 11, 1987
GrantedFebruary 7, 1990
Term endedNovember 11, 2006
Application numberEP 86906873
Classification (CPC)F41B11/723
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