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Air massage system

EP 1018329 B1 · Applicant: Nitto Kohki Co., Ltd.

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  • Filed December 22, 1999 and granted April 21, 2004. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended December 22, 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 June 22, 2025.
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FiledDecember 22, 1999
PublishedJuly 12, 2000
GrantedApril 21, 2004
Term endedDecember 22, 2019
Application numberEP 99125665
Classification (CPC)A61H9/0078

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