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Method and device for transfering bobbins during unwinding

EP 0509958 B1 · Applicant: FABRIQUES DE TABAC REUNIES S.A.

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  • Filed March 26, 1992 and granted February 28, 1996. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended March 26, 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 September 26, 2017.
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FiledMarch 26, 1992
PublishedOctober 21, 1992
GrantedFebruary 28, 1996
Term endedMarch 26, 2012
Application numberEP 92810223
Classification (CPC)B65H19/123

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