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Motion conversion system

EP 0826554 B1 · Applicant: Eaton Corporation

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  • Filed August 27, 1997 and granted June 13, 2001. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended August 27, 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 February 27, 2023.
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FiledAugust 27, 1997
PublishedMarch 4, 1998
GrantedJune 13, 2001
Term endedAugust 27, 2017
Application numberEP 97440073
Classification (CPC)B60Q1/1469

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