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Elephant's foot adjusting screw assembly for internal combustion

EP 0688981 B1 · Applicant: CUMMINS ENGINE COMPANY, INC.

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  • Filed June 14, 1995 and granted August 18, 1999. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended June 14, 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 December 14, 2020.
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FiledJune 14, 1995
PublishedDecember 27, 1995
GrantedAugust 18, 1999
Term endedJune 14, 2015
Application numberEP 95109163
Classification (CPC)F01L1/20 +1 more

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