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Electric arc furnace

EP 1090148 B1 · Applicant: Stein, Wilfried

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  • Filed April 26, 1999 and granted November 6, 2002. 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
PublishedApril 11, 2001
GrantedNovember 6, 2002
Term endedApril 26, 2019
Application numberEP 99920783
Classification (CPC)F27B3/22 +2 more

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