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Valve control device for an internal combustion engine

EP 1029157 B1 · Applicant: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH

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  • Filed February 16, 1999 and granted September 10, 2003. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended February 16, 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 August 16, 2024.
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FiledFebruary 16, 1999
PublishedAugust 23, 2000
GrantedSeptember 10, 2003
Term endedFebruary 16, 2019
Application numberEP 99914421
Classification (CPC)F01L9/10

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