Expired European patentEurope
Cooling plates for a blast-furnace cooling arrangement
EP 0044792 B1 · Applicant: UNION SIDERURGIQUE DU NORD ET DE L'EST DE LA FRANCE par abréviation "USINOR"
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- Filed July 22, 1981 and granted October 23, 1985. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended July 22, 2001.
- 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 January 22, 2007.
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FiledJuly 22, 1981
PublishedJanuary 27, 1982
GrantedOctober 23, 1985
Term endedJuly 22, 2001
Application numberEP 81401167
Classification (CPC)C21B7/10
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