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Discharging means for liquid contained in a cleaning bucket

EP 0956807 B1 · Applicant: A.Z. INTERNATIONAL S.A.

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  • Filed April 23, 1999 and granted June 3, 2009. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended April 23, 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 23, 2024.
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FiledApril 23, 1999
PublishedNovember 17, 1999
GrantedJune 3, 2009
Term endedApril 23, 2019
Application numberEP 99630039
Classification (CPC)A47J47/18 +1 more

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