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Pedestrian crossing aid for the visually impaired

EP 0703554 B1 · Applicant: ETABLISSEMENTS CRAPIE

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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.

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  • Filed September 26, 1994 and granted June 30, 1999. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended September 26, 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 26, 2020.
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FiledSeptember 26, 1994
PublishedMarch 27, 1996
GrantedJune 30, 1999
Term endedSeptember 26, 2014
Application numberEP 94440062
Classification (CPC)G08G1/005 +1 more

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1995199719992001200320052007200920112013Application filedSep 26, 1994PublishedMarch 27, 1996Patent grantedJune 30, 1999Term endedSep 26, 2014

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