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EP 1181655 B1 · Applicant: UNITED PARCEL SERVICE OF AMERICA, INC.
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- Filed February 7, 2000 and granted September 17, 2003. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended February 7, 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 August 7, 2025.
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FiledFebruary 7, 2000
PublishedFebruary 27, 2002
GrantedSeptember 17, 2003
Term endedFebruary 7, 2020
Application numberEP 00921319
Classification (CPC)G06Q10/08 +2 more
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