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Mechanical gearing

EP 0876561 B1 · Applicant: Hoogenberg, Heerke

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  • Filed November 19, 1997 and granted September 11, 2002. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended November 19, 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 May 19, 2023.
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FiledNovember 19, 1997
PublishedNovember 11, 1998
GrantedSeptember 11, 2002
Term endedNovember 19, 2017
Application numberEP 97913538
Classification (CPC)F16H15/54

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