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Cold- and hot-water piping made of pitting-resistant copper alloy

EP 0630981 B1 · Applicant: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION

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  • Filed December 21, 1993 and granted June 24, 1998. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended December 21, 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 June 21, 2019.
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FiledDecember 21, 1993
PublishedDecember 28, 1994
GrantedJune 24, 1998
Term endedDecember 21, 2013
Application numberEP 94903030
Classification (CPC)C22C9/00

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1994199619982000200220042006200820102012Application filedDec 21, 1993PublishedDec 28, 1994Patent grantedJune 24, 1998Term endedDec 21, 2013

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