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Bracket for mounting a lighting fixture to a wall, and lighting fixture adapted to said bracket

EP 0766039 B1 · Applicant: LEGRAND SNC

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  • Filed September 25, 1996 and granted August 28, 2002. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended September 25, 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 25, 2022.
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FiledSeptember 25, 1996
PublishedApril 2, 1997
GrantedAugust 28, 2002
Term endedSeptember 25, 2016
Application numberEP 96402038
Classification (CPC)G09F19/22 +2 more

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