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Apparatus for controlling the bobbin cradle of a textil machine

EP 0950628 B1 · Applicant: W. SCHLAFHORST AG & CO.

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  • Filed February 6, 1999 and granted May 7, 2003. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended February 6, 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 August 6, 2024.
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FiledFebruary 6, 1999
PublishedOctober 20, 1999
GrantedMay 7, 2003
Term endedFebruary 6, 2019
Application numberEP 99102325
Classification (CPC)B65H54/52

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