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Electrostatic discharging footwear

EP 0765615 B1 · Applicant: AT&T Corp.

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  • Filed September 17, 1996 and granted January 29, 2003. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended September 17, 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 March 17, 2022.
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FiledSeptember 17, 1996
PublishedApril 2, 1997
GrantedJanuary 29, 2003
Term endedSeptember 17, 2016
Application numberEP 96306732
Classification (CPC)A43B7/36

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