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Apparatus and high speed process for making highly stretched film

EP 1095758 B1 · Applicant: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.

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  • Filed August 29, 2000 and granted October 19, 2005. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended August 29, 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 1, 2026.
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FiledAugust 29, 2000
PublishedMay 2, 2001
GrantedOctober 19, 2005
Term endedAugust 29, 2020
Application numberEP 00118158
Classification (CPC)B29C55/06

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