Patent Yard Sign in
Expired European patentEurope

Method and apparatus for manufacturing tablets

EP 0691122 B1 · Applicant: Eisai Co., Ltd.

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 June 27, 1995 and granted December 13, 2000. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended June 27, 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 27, 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.
FiledJune 27, 1995
PublishedJanuary 10, 1996
GrantedDecember 13, 2000
Term endedJune 27, 2015
Application numberEP 95304529
Classification (CPC)B30B15/302 +2 more

Timeline

Timeline From EPO dates

1996199820002002200420062008201020122014Application filedJune 27, 1995PublishedJan 10, 1996Patent grantedDec 13, 2000Term endedJune 27, 2015

Sources & verification