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EP 0270044 A2 · Applicant: BBC Brown Boveri Aktiengesellschaft

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Listed from its EPO record in Patent Yard's archive of European patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the EPO PDF and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.

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  • Filed November 28, 1987 and never granted as a European patent. Had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended November 28, 2007.
  • 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, 2013.
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FiledNovember 28, 1987
PublishedJune 8, 1988
GrantedNever granted
Term endedNovember 28, 2007
Application numberEP 87117632
Classification (CPC)H01M50/572

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1988199019921994199619982000200220042006Application filedNov 28, 1987PublishedJune 8, 1988Term endedNov 28, 2007

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