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Heat-resistant, ferritic cast steel, and exhaust equipment member made thereof

EP 0530604 B1 · Applicant: HITACHI METALS, LTD.

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  • Filed August 20, 1992 and granted December 27, 1996. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended August 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 February 20, 2018.
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FiledAugust 20, 1992
PublishedMarch 10, 1993
GrantedDecember 27, 1996
Term endedAugust 20, 2012
Application numberEP 92114225
Classification (CPC)C22C38/22 +2 more

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