Patent Yard Sign in
Expired European patentEurope

Blank feeder

EP 0769365 B1 · Applicant: Shikoku Kakoki Co., Ltd.

EPO PDF

Overview

The published document from the EPO: abstract, claims, description and drawings. Open it full size

Read the whole patent

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.

Why it's free to use

  • Filed October 15, 1996 and granted January 9, 2002. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended October 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 April 15, 2022.
  • We check European rights only. A US or other national patent in its family could still be in force: check its family on Espacenet or Google Patents.
FiledOctober 15, 1996
PublishedApril 23, 1997
GrantedJanuary 9, 2002
Term endedOctober 15, 2016
Application numberEP 96202864
Classification (CPC)B65H1/24

Timeline

Timeline From EPO dates

1997199920012003200520072009201120132015Application filedOct 15, 1996PublishedApril 23, 1997Patent grantedJan 9, 2002Term endedOct 15, 2016

Sources & verification