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EP 1150283 B1 · Applicant: Hitachi Ltd.

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  • Filed October 22, 1997 and granted April 5, 2006. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended October 22, 2017.
  • 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 April 22, 2023.
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FiledOctober 22, 1997
PublishedOctober 31, 2001
GrantedApril 5, 2006
Term endedOctober 22, 2017
Application numberEP 01115562
Classification (CPC)G11B7/007 +2 more

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