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Flow control valve

EP 0954704 B1 · Applicant: Dana Automotive Limited

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  • Filed December 31, 1997 and granted June 26, 2002. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended December 31, 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 1, 2023.
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FiledDecember 31, 1997
PublishedNovember 10, 1999
GrantedJune 26, 2002
Term endedDecember 31, 2017
Application numberEP 97950345
Classification (CPC)F04C14/26 +1 more

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