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Machine cloth, in particular a paper-making felt or screen

EP 0262467 B1 · Applicant: Thomas Josef Heimbach GmbH & Co.

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  • Filed September 7, 1987 and granted July 4, 1990. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended September 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 March 7, 2013.
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FiledSeptember 7, 1987
PublishedApril 6, 1988
GrantedJuly 4, 1990
Term endedSeptember 7, 2007
Application numberEP 87113039
Classification (CPC)D21F1/0054

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1988199019921994199619982000200220042006Application filedSep 7, 1987PublishedApril 6, 1988Patent grantedJuly 4, 1990Term endedSep 7, 2007

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