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Process and device for ultrasonic testing the end regions of elongated rotationally symmetrical test pieces

EP 0403486 B1 · Applicant: KRAUTKRÄMER GmbH & Co.

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  • Filed January 13, 1989 and granted April 15, 1992. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended January 13, 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 July 13, 2014.
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FiledJanuary 13, 1989
PublishedDecember 27, 1990
GrantedApril 15, 1992
Term endedJanuary 13, 2009
Application numberEP 89901269
Classification (CPC)G01N29/26

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