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EP 0125312 B1 · Applicant: Inventive Packaging Corporation

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  • Filed November 18, 1983 and granted November 19, 1987. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended November 18, 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 May 18, 2009.
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FiledNovember 18, 1983
PublishedNovember 21, 1984
GrantedNovember 19, 1987
Term endedNovember 18, 2003
Application numberEP 84900192
Classification (CPC)B65D41/06

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1984198619881990199219941996199820002002Application filedNov 18, 1983PublishedNov 21, 1984Patent grantedNov 19, 1987Term endedNov 18, 2003

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