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Form, fill, seal and separate packaging machine for reclosable containers

EP 0453522 B1 · Applicant: PACKAGE MACHINERY COMPANY

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Listed from its EPO record in Patent Yard's archive of European patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the EPO PDF and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.

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  • Filed July 27, 1990 and granted November 2, 1994. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended July 27, 2010.
  • 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 January 27, 2016.
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FiledJuly 27, 1990
PublishedOctober 30, 1991
GrantedNovember 2, 1994
Term endedJuly 27, 2010
Application numberEP 90912509
Classification (CPC)B65B43/267 +2 more

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1991199319951997199920012003200520072009Application filedJuly 27, 1990PublishedOct 30, 1991Patent grantedNov 2, 1994Term endedJuly 27, 2010

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