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Device for filling and closing bags

EP 1050458 B1 · Applicant: Windmöller & Hölscher

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  • Filed March 24, 2000 and granted October 25, 2006. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended March 24, 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 24, 2025.
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FiledMarch 24, 2000
PublishedNovember 8, 2000
GrantedOctober 25, 2006
Term endedMarch 24, 2020
Application numberEP 00106386
Classification (CPC)B65B1/22

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