Expired European patentEurope
Hair-cutting system including a hair-cutting apparatus and including a comb device which can be mounted onto the apparatus and which has two spring-loaded comb sections
EP 0886563 B1 · Applicant: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
Overview
The published document from the EPO: abstract, claims, description and drawings. Open it full size
Read the whole patent
Listed from its EPO record in Patent Yard's archive of European patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the EPO PDF and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Filed October 23, 1997 and granted January 15, 2003. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended October 23, 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 April 23, 2023.
- We check European rights only. A US or other national patent in its family could still be in force: check its family on Espacenet or Google Patents.
FiledOctober 23, 1997
PublishedJanuary 15, 2003
GrantedJanuary 15, 2003
Term endedOctober 23, 2017
Application numberEP 97943125
Classification (CPC)B26B19/20
Timeline
Timeline From EPO dates
Sources & verification
Official EPO records
Everything on this page comes from the EPO record linked above. EPO data used under CC BY 4.0.