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EP 0104875 B1 · Applicant: BP Chemicals Limited
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- Filed September 21, 1983 and granted June 5, 1985. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended September 21, 2003.
- 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, 2009.
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FiledSeptember 21, 1983
PublishedApril 4, 1984
GrantedJune 5, 1985
Term endedSeptember 21, 2003
Application numberEP 83305550
Classification (CPC)C07C67/36 +2 more
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