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Connecting device especially for piping systems or the like

EP 1087151 A2 · Applicant: R. Frank GmbH

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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.

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  • Filed October 18, 1999 and never granted as a European patent. Had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended October 18, 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 April 18, 2025.
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FiledOctober 18, 1999
PublishedMarch 28, 2001
GrantedNever granted
Term endedOctober 18, 2019
Application numberEP 99120646
Classification (CPC)F16B43/00 +2 more

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