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Ship's stem duct with airfoil section

EP 0756554 B1 · Applicant: Petromanolakis, Emmanuel E.

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  • Filed February 20, 1996 and granted May 19, 2004. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended February 20, 2016.
  • 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 20, 2021.
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FiledFebruary 20, 1996
PublishedFebruary 5, 1997
GrantedMay 19, 2004
Term endedFebruary 20, 2016
Application numberEP 96925584
Classification (CPC)B63B1/32 +2 more

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