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Polishing method, apparatus for the same and buff polishing wheel

EP 0624432 B1 · Applicant: BBF YAMATE CORPORATION

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  • Filed October 29, 1993 and granted January 20, 1999. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended October 29, 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 April 29, 2019.
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FiledOctober 29, 1993
PublishedNovember 17, 1994
GrantedJanuary 20, 1999
Term endedOctober 29, 2013
Application numberEP 93923661
Classification (CPC)B24B29/00

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