Multifunctional quaternary ammonium compounds with up to 4 quaternary ammonium groups at the chain ends, their production and use in cosmetic preparations, particularly for treating the hair

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Listed from its EPO record in Patent Yard's archive of European patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the EPO PDF and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.

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• Filed February 27, 1984 and granted October 29, 1986. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended February 27, 2004.
• 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 27, 2009.
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