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Planetary hub reduction axle for motor vehicles

EP 0823346 B1 · Applicant: MAN Nutzfahrzeuge Aktiengesellschaft

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  • Filed June 24, 1997 and granted March 22, 2000. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended June 24, 2017.
  • 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 December 24, 2022.
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FiledJune 24, 1997
PublishedFebruary 11, 1998
GrantedMarch 22, 2000
Term endedJune 24, 2017
Application numberEP 97110262
Classification (CPC)B60K17/046

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