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Part mounting apparatus and part supply apparatus

EP 1054584 B1 · Applicant: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

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  • Filed November 9, 1998 and granted August 23, 2006. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended November 9, 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 May 9, 2024.
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FiledNovember 9, 1998
PublishedNovember 22, 2000
GrantedAugust 23, 2006
Term endedNovember 9, 2018
Application numberEP 98951756
Classification (CPC)H05K13/0417 +2 more

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