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A construction for automatically milking animals

EP 0630558 B1 · Applicant: Texas Industries Inc.

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  • Filed June 22, 1994 and granted May 10, 2000. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended June 22, 2014.
  • 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 22, 2019.
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FiledJune 22, 1994
PublishedDecember 28, 1994
GrantedMay 10, 2000
Term endedJune 22, 2014
Application numberEP 94201790
Classification (CPC)A01J7/04 +2 more

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1995199719992001200320052007200920112013Application filedJune 22, 1994PublishedDec 28, 1994Patent grantedMay 10, 2000Term endedJune 22, 2014

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