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Exhaust gas cleaning device for internal combustion engines

EP 1184544 B1 · Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA

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  • Filed March 27, 2001 and granted August 4, 2004. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended March 27, 2021.
  • 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 September 27, 2026.
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FiledMarch 27, 2001
PublishedMarch 6, 2002
GrantedAugust 4, 2004
Term endedMarch 27, 2021
Application numberEP 01915862
Classification (CPC)F01N3/0821 +2 more

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