Patent Yard Sign in
Expired European patentEurope

Angle measuring device

EP 0776065 B1 · Applicant: Dr. Johannes Heidenhain GmbH

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 September 28, 1996 and granted January 5, 2000. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended September 28, 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 28, 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.
FiledSeptember 28, 1996
PublishedMay 28, 1997
GrantedJanuary 5, 2000
Term endedSeptember 28, 2016
Application numberEP 96115610
Classification (CPC)G01D5/264

Timeline

Timeline From EPO dates

1997199920012003200520072009201120132015Application filedSep 28, 1996PublishedMay 28, 1997Patent grantedJan 5, 2000Term endedSep 28, 2016

Sources & verification