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Device for the removal of empty bobbins from the spindles of a creel or the like

EP 0474990 B1 · Applicant: Hacoba Textilmaschinen GmbH & Co KG

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  • Filed June 22, 1991 and granted October 19, 1994. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended June 22, 2011.
  • 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 22, 2016.
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FiledJune 22, 1991
PublishedMarch 18, 1992
GrantedOctober 19, 1994
Term endedJune 22, 2011
Application numberEP 91110336
Classification (CPC)B65H67/068

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1992199419961998200020022004200620082010Application filedJune 22, 1991PublishedMarch 18, 1992Patent grantedOct 19, 1994Term endedJune 22, 2011

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