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EP 1010378 B1 · Applicant: BREED AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGY, INC.

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  • Filed October 15, 1999 and granted July 16, 2003. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended October 15, 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 April 15, 2025.
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FiledOctober 15, 1999
PublishedJune 21, 2000
GrantedJuly 16, 2003
Term endedOctober 15, 2019
Application numberEP 99120561
Classification (CPC)A44B11/2523

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