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Exhaust system for a motor vehicle and process for making an exhaust system

EP 0875409 B1 · Applicant: SCAMBIA INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENTS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT

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  • Filed April 21, 1998 and granted November 27, 2002. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended April 21, 2018.
  • 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 October 21, 2023.
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FiledApril 21, 1998
PublishedNovember 4, 1998
GrantedNovember 27, 2002
Term endedApril 21, 2018
Application numberEP 98810347
Classification (CPC)F01N13/08 +2 more

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