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Device for fixing lenses to a spectacles frame

EP 0868676 B1 · Applicant: Perie, Jean-Claude

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  • Filed October 22, 1996 and granted November 22, 2000. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended October 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 April 22, 2022.
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FiledOctober 22, 1996
PublishedOctober 7, 1998
GrantedNovember 22, 2000
Term endedOctober 22, 2016
Application numberEP 96934954
Classification (CPC)G02C5/008 +2 more

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1997199920012003200520072009201120132015Application filedOct 22, 1996PublishedOct 7, 1998Patent grantedNov 22, 2000Term endedOct 22, 2016

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