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Method and apparatus for heat stretching synthetic fiber rope

EP 0660891 B1 · Applicant: PUGET SOUND ROPE CORPORATION

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  • Filed September 20, 1993 and granted February 2, 2000. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended September 20, 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 March 20, 2019.
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FiledSeptember 20, 1993
PublishedJuly 5, 1995
GrantedFebruary 2, 2000
Term endedSeptember 20, 2013
Application numberEP 93922275
Classification (CPC)B29C55/22 +1 more

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