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Food slicing with multiple cutting surface blade

EP 0478159 B1 · Applicant: OSCAR MAYER FOODS CORPORATION

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  • Filed September 4, 1991 and granted May 24, 1995. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended September 4, 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 March 4, 2017.
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FiledSeptember 4, 1991
PublishedApril 1, 1992
GrantedMay 24, 1995
Term endedSeptember 4, 2011
Application numberEP 91308077
Classification (CPC)B26D1/0006

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1992199419961998200020022004200620082010Application filedSep 4, 1991PublishedApril 1, 1992Patent grantedMay 24, 1995Term endedSep 4, 2011

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