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Method for controlling the coating weight for strip-phosphating

EP 1090160 B1 · Applicant: ThyssenKrupp Stahl AG

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  • Filed February 20, 1999 and granted May 7, 2003. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended February 20, 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 August 20, 2024.
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FiledFebruary 20, 1999
PublishedApril 11, 2001
GrantedMay 7, 2003
Term endedFebruary 20, 2019
Application numberEP 99937820
Classification (CPC)C23C22/12 +2 more

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