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High-frequency inverter and induction cooking device using the same

EP 0888033 B1 · Applicant: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

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  • Filed March 13, 1997 and granted January 26, 2005. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended March 13, 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 September 13, 2022.
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FiledMarch 13, 1997
PublishedDecember 30, 1998
GrantedJanuary 26, 2005
Term endedMarch 13, 2017
Application numberEP 97907300
Classification (CPC)H05B6/062 +1 more

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