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EP 1278641 B1 · Applicant: Bizerba GmbH & Co. KG

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  • Filed March 13, 2001 and granted September 12, 2007. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended March 13, 2021.
  • 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 13, 2026.
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FiledMarch 13, 2001
PublishedJanuary 29, 2003
GrantedSeptember 12, 2007
Term endedMarch 13, 2021
Application numberEP 01911763
Classification (CPC)B41J15/04 +2 more

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