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Stainless steel pipe and joining method thereof

EP 1044756 B1 · Applicant: Nippon Sanso Corporation

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  • Filed March 30, 2000 and granted June 2, 2004. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended March 30, 2020.
  • 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 September 30, 2025.
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FiledMarch 30, 2000
PublishedOctober 18, 2000
GrantedJune 2, 2004
Term endedMarch 30, 2020
Application numberEP 00302689
Classification (CPC)B23K11/02

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