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Electrodynamic transducer for underwater acoustics

EP 0881001 B1 · Applicant: Thales Underwater Systems SAS

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  • Filed May 19, 1998 and granted August 4, 2004. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended May 19, 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 November 19, 2023.
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FiledMay 19, 1998
PublishedDecember 2, 1998
GrantedAugust 4, 2004
Term endedMay 19, 2018
Application numberEP 98401205
Classification (CPC)G10K11/006 +1 more

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