Expired European patentEurope
Rodless actuator with a stroke-limiting device
EP 0346504 B1 · Applicant: Festo KG
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- Filed June 11, 1988 and granted January 22, 1992. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended June 11, 2008.
- 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 December 11, 2013.
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FiledJune 11, 1988
PublishedDecember 20, 1989
GrantedJanuary 22, 1992
Term endedJune 11, 2008
Application numberEP 88109346
Classification (CPC)F15B15/24 +1 more
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