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Oil pan

EP 1041253 B1 · Applicant: IBS Brocke GmbH & Co. KG

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  • Filed February 19, 2000 and granted June 9, 2004. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended February 19, 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 August 19, 2025.
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FiledFebruary 19, 2000
PublishedOctober 4, 2000
GrantedJune 9, 2004
Term endedFebruary 19, 2020
Application numberEP 00103563
Classification (CPC)F01M11/0004

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