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Method and apparatus for making bags with handles

EP 0830937 B1 · Applicant: FISCHER & KRECKE GMBH & CO.

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  • Filed September 19, 1996 and granted January 9, 2002. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended September 19, 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 19, 2022.
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FiledSeptember 19, 1996
PublishedMarch 25, 1998
GrantedJanuary 9, 2002
Term endedSeptember 19, 2016
Application numberEP 96115023
Classification (CPC)B31B70/00 +1 more

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