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Inter-line fishing rod

EP 0885562 B1 · Applicant: DAIWA SEIKO INC.

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  • Filed September 3, 1996 and granted August 20, 2003. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended September 3, 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 March 3, 2022.
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FiledSeptember 3, 1996
PublishedDecember 23, 1998
GrantedAugust 20, 2003
Term endedSeptember 3, 2016
Application numberEP 98116806
Classification (CPC)A01K87/005

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