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Assembly for the regulation the quantity of regeneration salt taken from the salt tank of the decalcifier of a washing machine

EP 1097668 B1 · Applicant: T & P S.p.A.

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  • Filed September 21, 2000 and granted April 30, 2008. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended September 21, 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 March 21, 2026.
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FiledSeptember 21, 2000
PublishedMay 9, 2001
GrantedApril 30, 2008
Term endedSeptember 21, 2020
Application numberEP 00120150
Classification (CPC)A47L15/4229

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