Patent Yard Sign in
Expired European patentEurope

Instrument cabinet

EP 1173911 B1 · Applicant: Deutsche Telekom AG

EPO PDF

Overview

The published document from the EPO: abstract, claims, description and drawings. Open it full size

Read the whole patent

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.

Why it's free to use

  • Filed March 21, 2000 and granted July 30, 2008. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended March 21, 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 September 21, 2025.
  • We check European rights only. A US or other national patent in its family could still be in force: check its family on Espacenet or Google Patents.
FiledMarch 21, 2000
PublishedJanuary 23, 2002
GrantedJuly 30, 2008
Term endedMarch 21, 2020
Application numberEP 00920524
Classification (CPC)H02B1/56 +2 more

Timeline

Timeline From EPO dates

2001200320052007200920112013201520172019Application filedMarch 21, 2000PublishedJan 23, 2002Patent grantedJuly 30, 2008Term endedMarch 21, 2020

Sources & verification