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Method and device for controlling a valve with pneumatic control

EP 1025380 B1 · Applicant: Framatome ANP

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  • Filed October 23, 1998 and granted May 6, 2004. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended October 23, 2018.
  • 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 23, 2024.
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FiledOctober 23, 1998
PublishedAugust 9, 2000
GrantedMay 6, 2004
Term endedOctober 23, 2018
Application numberEP 98951546
Classification (CPC)F16K37/0083

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