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Automotive fuel pump with a high efficiency vapor venting system

EP 1045148 B1 · Applicant: Ford Motor Company

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  • Filed March 22, 2000 and granted March 17, 2004. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended March 22, 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 22, 2025.
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FiledMarch 22, 2000
PublishedOctober 18, 2000
GrantedMarch 17, 2004
Term endedMarch 22, 2020
Application numberEP 00302310
Classification (CPC)F04D5/002 +1 more

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