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Device and method for automatically measuring the height of sedimentation in a sedimentometer

EP 0674168 B1 · Applicant: SIA Schweizer Schmirgel- und Schleifindustrie AG

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  • Filed February 15, 1995 and granted December 10, 1997. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended February 15, 2015.
  • 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 15, 2020.
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FiledFebruary 15, 1995
PublishedSeptember 27, 1995
GrantedDecember 10, 1997
Term endedFebruary 15, 2015
Application numberEP 95810096
Classification (CPC)G01N15/04

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