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Metal scrap submergence system for scrap charging/melting well of furnace

EP 1070149 B1 · Applicant: Metaullics Systems Co., L.P.

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  • Filed March 30, 1999 and granted July 9, 2003. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended March 30, 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 September 30, 2024.
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FiledMarch 30, 1999
PublishedJanuary 24, 2001
GrantedJuly 9, 2003
Term endedMarch 30, 2019
Application numberEP 99914267
Classification (CPC)C22B7/003 +2 more

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