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Method and apparatus for removing precut parts out of metallic sheets

EP 0950481 B1 · Applicant: Cosytronic Computer-System-Electronic GmbH

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  • Filed March 31, 1999 and granted May 21, 2003. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended March 31, 2019.
  • 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 1, 2024.
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FiledMarch 31, 1999
PublishedOctober 20, 1999
GrantedMay 21, 2003
Term endedMarch 31, 2019
Application numberEP 99106582
Classification (CPC)B23K11/22

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