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EP 0042016 B1 · Applicant: BBC Aktiengesellschaft Brown, Boveri & Cie.
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- Filed June 16, 1980 and granted October 31, 1984. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended June 16, 2000.
- 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 December 16, 2005.
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FiledJune 16, 1980
PublishedDecember 23, 1981
GrantedOctober 31, 1984
Term endedJune 16, 2000
Application numberEP 80200559
Classification (CPC)F16C17/10 +1 more
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