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Wind protection for precision balances

EP 0347520 B1 · Applicant: Mettler-Toledo AG

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  • Filed February 14, 1989 and granted March 3, 1993. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended February 14, 2009.
  • 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 August 14, 2014.
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FiledFebruary 14, 1989
PublishedDecember 27, 1989
GrantedMarch 3, 1993
Term endedFebruary 14, 2009
Application numberEP 89102493
Classification (CPC)G01G21/286

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