Expired European patentEurope
A packet of toweling for single use adapted to be dispensed for hand drying
EP 0393254 B1 · Applicant: Vendor Holding B.V.
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- Filed April 19, 1989 and granted December 13, 2000. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended April 19, 2009.
- 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 October 19, 2014.
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FiledApril 19, 1989
PublishedOctober 24, 1990
GrantedDecember 13, 2000
Term endedApril 19, 2009
Application numberEP 89201008
Classification (CPC)A47K10/34
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