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Process and apparatus for hot dipping age resistant steel sheet

EP 0775757 B1 · Applicant: PREUSSAG STAHL AG

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  • Filed October 10, 1996 and granted March 5, 2003. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended October 10, 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 April 10, 2022.
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FiledOctober 10, 1996
PublishedMay 28, 1997
GrantedMarch 5, 2003
Term endedOctober 10, 2016
Application numberEP 96116218
Classification (CPC)C23C2/02 +2 more

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