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Electroplating bath and process for depositing functional chromium

EP 0348043 B1 · Applicant: ATOCHEM NORTH AMERICA, INC.

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  • Filed May 24, 1989 and granted January 27, 1993. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended May 24, 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 November 24, 2014.
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FiledMay 24, 1989
PublishedDecember 27, 1989
GrantedJanuary 27, 1993
Term endedMay 24, 2009
Application numberEP 89305252
Classification (CPC)C25D3/10

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