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I-point joy stick pointing device

EP 0762317 B1 · Applicant: DeVolpi, Dean

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  • Filed May 15, 1996 and granted January 23, 2002. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended May 15, 2016.
  • 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 November 15, 2021.
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FiledMay 15, 1996
PublishedMarch 12, 1997
GrantedJanuary 23, 2002
Term endedMay 15, 2016
Application numberEP 96107795
Classification (CPC)G05G9/047

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