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Spain

Harold Horner of the Prestige Group Limited, London applied for his British patent for

"An Improved Cork Extracting Device" on February 3, 1966 which was patented June

12, 1968. Prestige applied for the cork ejector patent in Spain on January 24, 1967. The

Spanish patent was issued before the British patent (August 14, 1967. Number 336,014).