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Camshaft boring machining method and apparatus

EP 0552425 B1 · Applicant: Western Atlas Inc.

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  • Filed October 28, 1992 and granted March 31, 1999. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended October 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 April 28, 2018.
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FiledOctober 28, 1992
PublishedJuly 28, 1993
GrantedMarch 31, 1999
Term endedOctober 28, 2012
Application numberEP 92118454
Classification (CPC)B23B41/12 +2 more

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