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EP 0834026 B1 · Applicant: LUCAS INDUSTRIES public limited company

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  • Filed June 20, 1996 and granted September 11, 2002. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended June 20, 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 December 20, 2021.
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FiledJune 20, 1996
PublishedApril 8, 1998
GrantedSeptember 11, 2002
Term endedJune 20, 2016
Application numberEP 96918771
Classification (CPC)F16D65/183 +1 more

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