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EP 1085549 B1 · Applicant: Schaltbau Aktiengesellschaft

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  • Filed September 14, 2000 and granted May 11, 2005. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended September 14, 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 March 14, 2026.
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FiledSeptember 14, 2000
PublishedMarch 21, 2001
GrantedMay 11, 2005
Term endedSeptember 14, 2020
Application numberEP 00120024
Classification (CPC)H01H51/2209

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