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EP 1197604 B1 · Applicant: D. Swarovski & Co.

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  • Filed October 11, 2000 and granted June 15, 2005. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended October 11, 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 April 11, 2026.
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FiledOctober 11, 2000
PublishedApril 17, 2002
GrantedJune 15, 2005
Term endedOctober 11, 2020
Application numberEP 00122040
Classification (CPC)B64F1/20 +1 more

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