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High vacuum valve

EP 1087159 B1 · Applicant: SMC Kabushiki Kaisha

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  • Filed April 26, 1999 and granted December 29, 2004. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended April 26, 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 October 26, 2024.
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FiledApril 26, 1999
PublishedMarch 28, 2001
GrantedDecember 29, 2004
Term endedApril 26, 2019
Application numberEP 99917164
Classification (CPC)F16K51/02 +2 more

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