Patent Yard Sign in
Expired European patentEurope

Glass bottles and process for preparing the same

EP 0485646 B1 · Applicant: KIRIN BEER KABUSHIKI KAISHA

EPO PDF

Overview

The published document from the EPO: abstract, claims, description and drawings. Open it full size

Read the whole patent

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.

Why it's free to use

  • Filed November 12, 1990 and granted September 11, 1996. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended November 12, 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 May 12, 2016.
  • We check European rights only. A US or other national patent in its family could still be in force: check its family on Espacenet or Google Patents.
FiledNovember 12, 1990
PublishedMay 20, 1992
GrantedSeptember 11, 1996
Term endedNovember 12, 2010
Application numberEP 90121619
Classification (CPC)C03C17/23 +1 more

Timeline

Timeline From EPO dates

1991199319951997199920012003200520072009Application filedNov 12, 1990PublishedMay 20, 1992Patent grantedSep 11, 1996Term endedNov 12, 2010

Sources & verification