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Coupling for hose and method of manufacturing the same

EP 0770809 B1 · Applicant: SAKURA RUBBER CO., LTD.

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  • Filed October 22, 1996 and granted April 11, 2001. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended October 22, 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 22, 2022.
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FiledOctober 22, 1996
PublishedMay 2, 1997
GrantedApril 11, 2001
Term endedOctober 22, 2016
Application numberEP 96116957
Classification (CPC)F16L37/252

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