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EP 0499786 B1 · Applicant: RSL LOGISTIK GMBH & CO

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  • Filed January 14, 1992 and granted April 24, 1996. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended January 14, 2012.
  • 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 July 14, 2017.
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FiledJanuary 14, 1992
PublishedAugust 26, 1992
GrantedApril 24, 1996
Term endedJanuary 14, 2012
Application numberEP 92100536
Classification (CPC)B65G9/002

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