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Device for cleaning the outer surface or printing cylinders

EP 1016523 B1 · Applicant: T.G.C. S.r.l.

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  • Filed October 27, 1999 and granted September 4, 2002. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended October 27, 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 27, 2025.
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FiledOctober 27, 1999
PublishedJuly 5, 2000
GrantedSeptember 4, 2002
Term endedOctober 27, 2019
Application numberEP 99121429
Classification (CPC)B41F35/00

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