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A device for monitoring partial discharges in an electric high-voltage apparatus or high-voltage equipment

EP 1018028 B1 · Applicant: ABB Research Ltd.

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  • Filed October 8, 1997 and granted August 4, 2004. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended October 8, 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 April 8, 2023.
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FiledOctober 8, 1997
PublishedJuly 12, 2000
GrantedAugust 4, 2004
Term endedOctober 8, 2017
Application numberEP 97909788
Classification (CPC)G01R31/14 +1 more

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