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Composite bearing material and method for producing

EP 0558282 B1 · Applicant: YANAGAWA SEIKO Co. Ltd.

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  • Filed February 24, 1993 and granted November 11, 1998. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended February 24, 2013.
  • 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 August 24, 2018.
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FiledFebruary 24, 1993
PublishedSeptember 1, 1993
GrantedNovember 11, 1998
Term endedFebruary 24, 2013
Application numberEP 93301345
Classification (CPC)F16C33/201

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