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Device for fitting or removing a cluster of teat cups for animals

EP 0532066 B1 · Applicant: GASCOIGNE-MELOTTE B.V.

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  • Filed June 19, 1992 and granted March 6, 1996. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended June 19, 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 December 19, 2017.
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FiledJune 19, 1992
PublishedMarch 17, 1993
GrantedMarch 6, 1996
Term endedJune 19, 2012
Application numberEP 92201830
Classification (CPC)A01J5/0175

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1993199519971999200120032005200720092011Application filedJune 19, 1992PublishedMarch 17, 1993Patent grantedMarch 6, 1996Term endedJune 19, 2012

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