Expired European patentEurope
Light contrast scanner for identifying marks
EP 1715313 B1 · Applicant: SICK AG
Overview
The published document from the EPO: abstract, claims, description and drawings. Open it full size
Read the whole patent
Listed from its EPO record in Patent Yard's archive of European patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the EPO PDF and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Filed March 29, 2006 and granted May 21, 2008. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended March 29, 2026.
- Supplementary protection certificates extend only medicine and crop-protection patents, and it isn't classified as either.
- We check European rights only. A US or other national patent in its family could still be in force: check its family on Espacenet or Google Patents.
FiledMarch 29, 2006
PublishedOctober 25, 2006
GrantedMay 21, 2008
Term endedMarch 29, 2026
Application numberEP 06006461
Classification (CPC)G01J3/46
Timeline
Timeline From EPO dates
Sources & verification
Official EPO records
Everything on this page comes from the EPO record linked above. EPO data used under CC BY 4.0.