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Device for automatically changing the pile in a sheet feeder

EP 1081072 B1 · Applicant: MAN Roland Druckmaschinen AG

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  • Filed August 24, 2000 and granted February 4, 2004. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended August 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 February 24, 2026.
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FiledAugust 24, 2000
PublishedMarch 7, 2001
GrantedFebruary 4, 2004
Term endedAugust 24, 2020
Application numberEP 00118344
Classification (CPC)B65H1/30

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