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EP 0053194 B1 · Applicant: Square D Starkstrom GmbH
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- Filed November 28, 1980 and granted May 15, 1985. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended November 28, 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 May 28, 2006.
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FiledNovember 28, 1980
PublishedJune 9, 1982
GrantedMay 15, 1985
Term endedNovember 28, 2000
Application numberEP 80107448
Classification (CPC)H01H5/04 +1 more
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