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Thermostatic valve unit

EP 0829795 B1 · Applicant: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft

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  • Filed August 20, 1997 and granted November 10, 1999. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended August 20, 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 February 20, 2023.
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FiledAugust 20, 1997
PublishedMarch 18, 1998
GrantedNovember 10, 1999
Term endedAugust 20, 2017
Application numberEP 97114339
Classification (CPC)G05D23/1366 +1 more

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