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Method and device for producing a ballastless and sleeper-less line of rails

EP 0876538 B1 · Applicant: LEONHARD WEISS GmbH & Co.

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  • Filed January 9, 1997 and granted September 1, 1999. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended January 9, 2017.
  • 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 July 9, 2022.
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FiledJanuary 9, 1997
PublishedNovember 11, 1998
GrantedSeptember 1, 1999
Term endedJanuary 9, 2017
Application numberEP 97907003
Classification (CPC)E01B1/002 +2 more

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