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Device and method for excavating deep trenches

EP 1091047 B1 · Applicant: Yugenkaisha Unit Shoji Limited

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  • Filed September 4, 2000 and granted March 30, 2005. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended September 4, 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 4, 2026.
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FiledSeptember 4, 2000
PublishedApril 11, 2001
GrantedMarch 30, 2005
Term endedSeptember 4, 2020
Application numberEP 00307606
Classification (CPC)E02F5/06 +1 more

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