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Thermostatic valve assembly

EP 0825372 B1 · Applicant: Behr Thermot-tronik Italia S.p.A.

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  • Filed August 19, 1996 and granted May 30, 2001. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended August 19, 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 19, 2022.
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FiledAugust 19, 1996
PublishedFebruary 25, 1998
GrantedMay 30, 2001
Term endedAugust 19, 2016
Application numberEP 96830451
Classification (CPC)F01P7/16 +1 more

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