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Dual purpose low insertion force gasket

EP 1185809 B1 · Applicant: S & B Technical Products, Inc.

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  • Filed March 1, 2000 and granted May 17, 2006. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended March 1, 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 1, 2025.
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FiledMarch 1, 2000
PublishedMarch 13, 2002
GrantedMay 17, 2006
Term endedMarch 1, 2020
Application numberEP 00912075
Classification (CPC)F16L21/03

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