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Bale press and method of operating it

EP 0758976 B1 · Applicant: Lindemann Maschinenfabrik GmbH

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  • Filed March 17, 1995 and granted September 30, 1998. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended March 17, 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 September 17, 2020.
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FiledMarch 17, 1995
PublishedFebruary 26, 1997
GrantedSeptember 30, 1998
Term endedMarch 17, 2015
Application numberEP 95913851
Classification (CPC)B65B27/12 +1 more

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