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Process for maintaining a constant concentration of substances in an electroplating bath

EP 0873435 B1 · Applicant: ATOTECH Deutschland GmbH

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  • Filed January 10, 1997 and granted March 29, 2000. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended January 10, 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 July 10, 2022.
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FiledJanuary 10, 1997
PublishedOctober 28, 1998
GrantedMarch 29, 2000
Term endedJanuary 10, 2017
Application numberEP 97900996
Classification (CPC)C25D21/14

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