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Method and device for making metallic powder

EP 0543017 B1 · Applicant: Kubota Corporation

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  • Filed June 1, 1992 and granted February 25, 1998. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended June 1, 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 December 1, 2017.
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FiledJune 1, 1992
PublishedMay 26, 1993
GrantedFebruary 25, 1998
Term endedJune 1, 2012
Application numberEP 92911022
Classification (CPC)C22C33/0278 +1 more

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1993199519971999200120032005200720092011Application filedJune 1, 1992PublishedMay 26, 1993Patent grantedFeb 25, 1998Term endedJune 1, 2012

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