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Container arrangement for fluid, especially fuel container arrangement in a motor vehicle

EP 0956992 B1 · Applicant: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft

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  • Filed April 16, 1999 and granted August 27, 2003. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended April 16, 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 16, 2024.
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FiledApril 16, 1999
PublishedNovember 17, 1999
GrantedAugust 27, 2003
Term endedApril 16, 2019
Application numberEP 99106289
Classification (CPC)B60K15/04

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