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Coupling assembly

EP 0828963 B1 · Applicant: AEROQUIP CORPORATION

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  • Filed April 22, 1996 and granted April 28, 2010. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended April 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 October 22, 2021.
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FiledApril 22, 1996
PublishedMarch 18, 1998
GrantedApril 28, 2010
Term endedApril 22, 2016
Application numberEP 96913039
Classification (CPC)F16L37/0887

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