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Hot-rolled stainless steel strip and method for producing the same

EP 0835698 B1 · Applicant: Kawasaki Steel Corporation

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  • Filed September 30, 1997 and granted December 11, 2002. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended September 30, 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 30, 2023.
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FiledSeptember 30, 1997
PublishedApril 15, 1998
GrantedDecember 11, 2002
Term endedSeptember 30, 2017
Application numberEP 97307720
Classification (CPC)C21D8/02 +1 more

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