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Speed reduction assembly with full disconnect for transfer cases and the like

EP 0879728 B1 · Applicant: BORG-WARNER AUTOMOTIVE, INC.

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  • Filed April 16, 1998 and granted October 2, 2002. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended April 16, 2018.
  • 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 October 16, 2023.
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FiledApril 16, 1998
PublishedNovember 25, 1998
GrantedOctober 2, 2002
Term endedApril 16, 2018
Application numberEP 98302965
Classification (CPC)B60K17/3467

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