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Secateurs with a cutter blade and an anvil which interacts with the cutter blade

EP 1077596 B1 · Applicant: Wolf-Garten GmbH & Co. KG

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  • Filed April 30, 1999 and granted September 19, 2001. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended April 30, 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 October 30, 2024.
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FiledApril 30, 1999
PublishedFebruary 28, 2001
GrantedSeptember 19, 2001
Term endedApril 30, 2019
Application numberEP 99924857
Classification (CPC)A01G3/02

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