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Golf training apparatus

EP 0873161 B1 · Applicant: Hoch, Dieter

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  • Filed December 21, 1996 and granted September 19, 2001. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended December 21, 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 June 21, 2022.
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FiledDecember 21, 1996
PublishedOctober 28, 1998
GrantedSeptember 19, 2001
Term endedDecember 21, 2016
Application numberEP 96944056
Classification (CPC)A63B63/00 +2 more

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