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Process and apparatus for shrouding a turbulent gas jet

EP 0720868 B1 · Applicant: AIR PRODUCTS AND CHEMICALS, INC.

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  • Filed December 29, 1995 and granted February 26, 2003. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended December 29, 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 June 29, 2021.
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FiledDecember 29, 1995
PublishedJuly 10, 1996
GrantedFebruary 26, 2003
Term endedDecember 29, 2015
Application numberEP 95309531
Classification (CPC)B05B7/20 +2 more

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