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Electrical device for controlling the release of a rotating shaft, in particular of a lock and lock equipped with same

EP 1040243 B1 · Applicant: Dubois Industries

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  • Filed December 15, 1998 and granted September 21, 2005. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended December 15, 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 June 15, 2024.
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FiledDecember 15, 1998
PublishedOctober 4, 2000
GrantedSeptember 21, 2005
Term endedDecember 15, 2018
Application numberEP 98962472
Classification (CPC)E05B47/0669

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