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Two or more part billet container for pressing flat billets in metal extrusion

EP 0678349 B1 · Applicant: SMS HASENCLEVER GmbH

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  • Filed February 21, 1994 and granted April 17, 1996. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended February 21, 2014.
  • 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 21, 2019.
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FiledFebruary 21, 1994
PublishedOctober 25, 1995
GrantedApril 17, 1996
Term endedFebruary 21, 2014
Application numberEP 94102544
Classification (CPC)B21C27/00

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1995199719992001200320052007200920112013Application filedFeb 21, 1994PublishedOct 25, 1995Patent grantedApril 17, 1996Term endedFeb 21, 2014

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