Patent Yard Sign in
Expired European patentEurope

Fastening element for hardware parts and hinge embodying such elements

EP 0686779 B1 · Applicant: Ferrari, Franco

EPO PDF

Overview

The published document from the EPO: abstract, claims, description and drawings. Open it full size

Read the whole patent

Listed from its EPO record in Patent Yard's archive of European patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the EPO PDF and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.

Why it's free to use

  • Filed May 11, 1995 and granted August 2, 2000. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended May 11, 2015.
  • 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 November 11, 2020.
  • We check European rights only. A US or other national patent in its family could still be in force: check its family on Espacenet or Google Patents.
FiledMay 11, 1995
PublishedDecember 13, 1995
GrantedAugust 2, 2000
Term endedMay 11, 2015
Application numberEP 95201230
Classification (CPC)F16B21/02 +2 more

Timeline

Timeline From EPO dates

1996199820002002200420062008201020122014Application filedMay 11, 1995PublishedDec 13, 1995Patent grantedAug 2, 2000Term endedMay 11, 2015

Sources & verification