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Section steel straightener with adjustable roller width

EP 0472765 B1 · Applicant: KAWASAKI STEEL CORPORATION

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  • Filed August 30, 1990 and granted November 3, 1993. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended August 30, 2010.
  • 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 March 1, 2016.
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FiledAugust 30, 1990
PublishedMarch 4, 1992
GrantedNovember 3, 1993
Term endedAugust 30, 2010
Application numberEP 90116673
Classification (CPC)B21D3/05

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1991199319951997199920012003200520072009Application filedAug 30, 1990PublishedMarch 4, 1992Patent grantedNov 3, 1993Term endedAug 30, 2010

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