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Method and apparatus for detecting fluid level

EP 0824072 B1 · Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Company

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  • Filed July 28, 1997 and granted February 11, 2004. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended July 28, 2017.
  • 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 January 28, 2023.
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FiledJuly 28, 1997
PublishedFebruary 18, 1998
GrantedFebruary 11, 2004
Term endedJuly 28, 2017
Application numberEP 97305662
Classification (CPC)G01F23/292 +1 more

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