Expired European patentEurope
Strap for a hose clamp and hose clamp
EP 0879983 B1 · Applicant: Serflex
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- Filed May 22, 1998 and granted March 5, 2003. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended May 22, 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 November 22, 2023.
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FiledMay 22, 1998
PublishedNovember 25, 1998
GrantedMarch 5, 2003
Term endedMay 22, 2018
Application numberEP 98401231
Classification (CPC)F16L33/08
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