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Bicycle exercise device

EP 0818220 B1 · Applicant: Minoura Co., Ltd.

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  • Filed August 21, 1996 and granted November 20, 2002. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended August 21, 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 February 21, 2022.
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FiledAugust 21, 1996
PublishedJanuary 14, 1998
GrantedNovember 20, 2002
Term endedAugust 21, 2016
Application numberEP 96202324
Classification (CPC)A63B69/16 +1 more

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