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Apparatus and method for identifying objects, in particular cup-like drinking vessels

EP 0691633 B1 · Applicant: SMK EURO CUP Mehrwegsysteme GmbH

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  • Filed June 23, 1995 and granted January 24, 2001. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended June 23, 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 23, 2020.
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FiledJune 23, 1995
PublishedJanuary 10, 1996
GrantedJanuary 24, 2001
Term endedJune 23, 2015
Application numberEP 95109816
Classification (CPC)G07F7/0609

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