Expired European patentEurope
Device for controlling and handling objects
EP 0262003 B1 · Applicant: CMB PACKAGING S.A.
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- Filed August 7, 1987 and granted March 13, 1991. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended August 7, 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 February 7, 2013.
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FiledAugust 7, 1987
PublishedMarch 30, 1988
GrantedMarch 13, 1991
Term endedAugust 7, 2007
Application numberEP 87401845
Classification (CPC)B07C5/083
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