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Device for controlling tightness of vapour pipes

EP 0073322 B1 · Applicant: Barlian, Reinhold

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  • Filed July 10, 1982 and granted February 5, 1986. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended July 10, 2002.
  • 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 10, 2008.
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FiledJuly 10, 1982
PublishedMarch 9, 1983
GrantedFebruary 5, 1986
Term endedJuly 10, 2002
Application numberEP 82106206
Classification (CPC)G01M3/002 +2 more

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1983198519871989199119931995199719992001Application filedJuly 10, 1982PublishedMarch 9, 1983Patent grantedFeb 5, 1986Term endedJuly 10, 2002

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