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Motor-vehicle adaptive head-lamp having a central adjustable diaphragm

EP 1069374 B1 · Applicant: Automotive Lighting Italia Spa

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  • Filed July 16, 1999 and granted August 31, 2005. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended July 16, 2019.
  • 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 January 16, 2025.
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FiledJuly 16, 1999
PublishedJanuary 17, 2001
GrantedAugust 31, 2005
Term endedJuly 16, 2019
Application numberEP 99830455
Classification (CPC)F21S41/28 +1 more

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