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Semi-spherical shoe

EP 1148236 B1 · Applicant: Taiho Kogyo Co., Ltd.

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  • Filed November 24, 2000 and granted November 7, 2007. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended November 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 May 24, 2026.
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FiledNovember 24, 2000
PublishedOctober 24, 2001
GrantedNovember 7, 2007
Term endedNovember 24, 2020
Application numberEP 00977888
Classification (CPC)F04B27/0886

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