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Electromagnetic stirring of a melting metal

EP 1155596 B1 · Applicant: CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE

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  • Filed February 25, 2000 and granted August 13, 2003. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended February 25, 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 August 25, 2025.
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FiledFebruary 25, 2000
PublishedNovember 21, 2001
GrantedAugust 13, 2003
Term endedFebruary 25, 2020
Application numberEP 00907728
Classification (CPC)H05B6/34 +2 more

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