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Monitoring film fouling in a process stream

EP 0531067 B1 · Applicant: NALCO CHEMICAL COMPANY

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  • Filed August 28, 1992 and granted December 27, 1995. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended August 28, 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 28, 2018.
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FiledAugust 28, 1992
PublishedMarch 10, 1993
GrantedDecember 27, 1995
Term endedAugust 28, 2012
Application numberEP 92307865
Classification (CPC)G01B11/0616

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1993199519971999200120032005200720092011Application filedAug 28, 1992PublishedMarch 10, 1993Patent grantedDec 27, 1995Term endedAug 28, 2012

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