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Method and apparatus for moulding and curing tyres for vehicle wheels

EP 1038657 B1 · Applicant: PIRELLI PNEUMATICI S.p.A.

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  • Filed March 20, 2000 and granted September 18, 2002. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended March 20, 2020.
  • 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 September 20, 2025.
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FiledMarch 20, 2000
PublishedSeptember 27, 2000
GrantedSeptember 18, 2002
Term endedMarch 20, 2020
Application numberEP 00105892
Classification (CPC)B29D30/0602

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