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Automatic sheet feeding mechanism

EP 1199268 B1 · Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Company

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  • Filed September 4, 1997 and granted July 28, 2004. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended September 4, 2017.
  • 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 March 4, 2023.
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FiledSeptember 4, 1997
PublishedApril 24, 2002
GrantedJuly 28, 2004
Term endedSeptember 4, 2017
Application numberEP 02075141
Classification (CPC)B65H3/34 +2 more

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1998200020022004200620082010201220142016Application filedSep 4, 1997PublishedApril 24, 2002Patent grantedJuly 28, 2004Term endedSep 4, 2017

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