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Method and apparatus for aligning labels on shirred food casings

EP 0692193 B1 · Applicant: Teepak Investments, Inc.

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  • Filed September 20, 1994 and granted August 23, 2000. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended September 20, 2014.
  • 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, 2020.
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FiledSeptember 20, 1994
PublishedJanuary 17, 1996
GrantedAugust 23, 2000
Term endedSeptember 20, 2014
Application numberEP 94114784
Classification (CPC)A22C11/02

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