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Multistage brightening of high yield and ultra high-yield wood pulps

EP 0187477 B1 · Applicant: Pulp and Paper Research Institute of Canada

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  • Filed December 5, 1985 and granted July 19, 1989. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended December 5, 2005.
  • 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 June 5, 2011.
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FiledDecember 5, 1985
PublishedJuly 16, 1986
GrantedJuly 19, 1989
Term endedDecember 5, 2005
Application numberEP 85308862
Classification (CPC)D21C9/1057

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1986198819901992199419961998200020022004Application filedDec 5, 1985PublishedJuly 16, 1986Patent grantedJuly 19, 1989Term endedDec 5, 2005

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