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Control valve for a fuel injector

EP 0959243 B1 · Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT

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  • Filed May 12, 1999 and granted November 12, 2003. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended May 12, 2019.
  • 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 12, 2024.
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FiledMay 12, 1999
PublishedNovember 24, 1999
GrantedNovember 12, 2003
Term endedMay 12, 2019
Application numberEP 99109650
Classification (CPC)F02M47/027

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