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EP 0950191 B1 · Applicant: NHK SPRING CO.LTD.

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  • Filed December 26, 1997 and granted March 13, 2002. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended December 26, 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 June 26, 2023.
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FiledDecember 26, 1997
PublishedOctober 20, 1999
GrantedMarch 13, 2002
Term endedDecember 26, 2017
Application numberEP 97950425
Classification (CPC)G01R1/06772 +1 more

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