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Lower filtering nozzle for a fuel assembly in a nuclear reactor

EP 0705477 B1 · Applicant: FRAMATOME

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  • Filed June 15, 1994 and granted March 5, 1997. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended June 15, 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 December 15, 2019.
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FiledJune 15, 1994
PublishedApril 10, 1996
GrantedMarch 5, 1997
Term endedJune 15, 2014
Application numberEP 94919714
Classification (CPC)G21C3/3206

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1995199719992001200320052007200920112013Application filedJune 15, 1994PublishedApril 10, 1996Patent grantedMarch 5, 1997Term endedJune 15, 2014

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