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Process and automatic device for cleaning objects with a liquid cleaning agent

EP 0286658 B1 · Applicant: Frohn, Walter Dr.-Ing.

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  • Filed October 9, 1987 and granted July 10, 1991. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended October 9, 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 April 9, 2013.
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FiledOctober 9, 1987
PublishedOctober 19, 1988
GrantedJuly 10, 1991
Term endedOctober 9, 2007
Application numberEP 87906564
Classification (CPC)B08B3/02 +2 more

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1988199019921994199619982000200220042006Application filedOct 9, 1987PublishedOct 19, 1988Patent grantedJuly 10, 1991Term endedOct 9, 2007

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