Patent Yard Sign in
Expired European patentEurope

Retortable packages

EP 0248601 B1 · Applicant: CMB PACKAGING (UK) LIMITED

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 May 28, 1987 and granted May 23, 1990. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended May 28, 2007.
  • 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 November 28, 2012.
  • 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.
FiledMay 28, 1987
PublishedDecember 9, 1987
GrantedMay 23, 1990
Term endedMay 28, 2007
Application numberEP 87304752
Classification (CPC)B65D77/2024

Timeline

Timeline From EPO dates

1988199019921994199619982000200220042006Application filedMay 28, 1987PublishedDec 9, 1987Patent grantedMay 23, 1990Term endedMay 28, 2007

Sources & verification