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Machine for peeling pears, removing their core, and cutting them into segments

EP 1024711 B1 · Applicant: A.B.L. s.r.l.

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  • Filed October 16, 1998 and granted August 16, 2001. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended October 16, 2018.
  • 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 16, 2024.
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FiledOctober 16, 1998
PublishedAugust 9, 2000
GrantedAugust 16, 2001
Term endedOctober 16, 2018
Application numberEP 98950312
Classification (CPC)A23N4/14

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