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Supporting device for automatic coupling for rail vehicles

EP 1070645 B1 · Applicant: KNORR-BREMSE Systeme für Schienenfahrzeuge GmbH

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  • Filed July 12, 2000 and granted March 31, 2004. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended July 12, 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 January 12, 2026.
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FiledJuly 12, 2000
PublishedJanuary 24, 2001
GrantedMarch 31, 2004
Term endedJuly 12, 2020
Application numberEP 00114159
Classification (CPC)B61G7/08

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