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Cooling and heating device using a solid-gas reaction

EP 0580848 B1 · Applicant: ELF AQUITAINE

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  • Filed February 10, 1993 and granted September 18, 1996. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended February 10, 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 10, 2018.
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FiledFebruary 10, 1993
PublishedFebruary 2, 1994
GrantedSeptember 18, 1996
Term endedFebruary 10, 2013
Application numberEP 93905379
Classification (CPC)F25B17/08

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1994199619982000200220042006200820102012Application filedFeb 10, 1993PublishedFeb 2, 1994Patent grantedSep 18, 1996Term endedFeb 10, 2013

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