Expired European patentEurope
Cartridge case
EP 0248978 B1 · Applicant: Rheinmetall GmbH
Overview
The published document from the EPO: abstract, claims, description and drawings. Open it full size
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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.
Why it's free to use
- Filed February 26, 1987 and granted June 13, 1990. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended February 26, 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 August 26, 2012.
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FiledFebruary 26, 1987
PublishedDecember 16, 1987
GrantedJune 13, 1990
Term endedFebruary 26, 2007
Application numberEP 87102747
Classification (CPC)F42B5/18 +1 more
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