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Internal combustion engine belt drive

EP 1185804 B1 · Applicant: INA-Schaeffler KG

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  • Filed May 10, 2000 and granted November 20, 2002. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended May 10, 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 November 10, 2025.
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FiledMay 10, 2000
PublishedMarch 13, 2002
GrantedNovember 20, 2002
Term endedMay 10, 2020
Application numberEP 00931154
Classification (CPC)F02B63/04 +2 more

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