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Transportable container and method for collecting and/or processing of recyclable waste

EP 0555939 B1 · Applicant: K & H Exploitatiemaatschappij B.V.

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  • Filed February 15, 1993 and granted August 21, 1996. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended February 15, 2013.
  • 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 August 15, 2018.
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FiledFebruary 15, 1993
PublishedAugust 18, 1993
GrantedAugust 21, 1996
Term endedFebruary 15, 2013
Application numberEP 93200436
Classification (CPC)B65F1/0033

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