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Electrical circuit for protecting a superconducting magnet during a quench

EP 0758811 B1 · Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY

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  • Filed August 7, 1996 and granted November 3, 2004. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended August 7, 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 February 7, 2022.
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FiledAugust 7, 1996
PublishedFebruary 19, 1997
GrantedNovember 3, 2004
Term endedAugust 7, 2016
Application numberEP 96305811
Classification (CPC)H02H7/001

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1997199920012003200520072009201120132015Application filedAug 7, 1996PublishedFeb 19, 1997Patent grantedNov 3, 2004Term endedAug 7, 2016

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