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Treatment of clays with cationic polymers to prepare high bulking pigments

EP 0245553 B1 · Applicant: ENGELHARD CORPORATION

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  • Filed July 2, 1986 and granted February 16, 1994. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended July 2, 2006.
  • 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 January 2, 2012.
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FiledJuly 2, 1986
PublishedNovember 19, 1987
GrantedFebruary 16, 1994
Term endedJuly 2, 2006
Application numberEP 86305151
Classification (CPC)D21H19/40 +2 more

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1987198919911993199519971999200120032005Application filedJuly 2, 1986PublishedNov 19, 1987Patent grantedFeb 16, 1994Term endedJuly 2, 2006

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