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Low temperature food storage equipment and temperature control method for such an equipment

EP 0505208 B1 · Applicant: OBAYASHI CORPORATION

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  • Filed March 20, 1992 and granted July 3, 1996. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended March 20, 2012.
  • 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 September 20, 2017.
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FiledMarch 20, 1992
PublishedSeptember 23, 1992
GrantedJuly 3, 1996
Term endedMarch 20, 2012
Application numberEP 92302441
Classification (CPC)F25D3/02

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