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Gas turbine engine bearing compartment seal

EP 0831204 B1 · Applicant: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION

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  • Filed August 29, 1997 and granted August 7, 2002. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended August 29, 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 March 1, 2023.
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FiledAugust 29, 1997
PublishedMarch 25, 1998
GrantedAugust 7, 2002
Term endedAugust 29, 2017
Application numberEP 97306650
Classification (CPC)F01D25/183

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