Patent Yard Sign in
Expired European patentEurope

Linear slide fastener

EP 1072209 B1 · Applicant: YKK CORPORATION

EPO PDF

Overview

The published document from the EPO: abstract, claims, description and drawings. Open it full size

Read the whole patent

Listed from its EPO record in Patent Yard's archive of European patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the EPO PDF and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.

Why it's free to use

  • Filed July 24, 2000 and granted March 24, 2004. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended July 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 January 24, 2026.
  • We check European rights only. A US or other national patent in its family could still be in force: check its family on Espacenet or Google Patents.
FiledJuly 24, 2000
PublishedJanuary 31, 2001
GrantedMarch 24, 2004
Term endedJuly 24, 2020
Application numberEP 00115863
Classification (CPC)D03D1/00 +1 more

Timeline

Timeline From EPO dates

2001200320052007200920112013201520172019Application filedJuly 24, 2000PublishedJan 31, 2001Patent grantedMarch 24, 2004Term endedJuly 24, 2020

Sources & verification