Expired European patentEurope
Improved shells for hot blast stoves or identical apparatus
EP 0149575 B1 · Applicant: UNION SIDERURGIQUE DU NORD ET DE L'EST DE LA FRANCE par abréviation "USINOR"
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- Filed January 11, 1985 and granted November 4, 1987. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended January 11, 2005.
- 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 July 11, 2010.
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FiledJanuary 11, 1985
PublishedJuly 24, 1985
GrantedNovember 4, 1987
Term endedJanuary 11, 2005
Application numberEP 85400055
Classification (CPC)C21B9/06
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