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EP 0251663 B1 · Applicant: IMPERIAL CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES PLC

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  • Filed June 23, 1987 and granted January 30, 1991. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended June 23, 2007.
  • 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 December 23, 2012.
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FiledJune 23, 1987
PublishedJanuary 7, 1988
GrantedJanuary 30, 1991
Term endedJune 23, 2007
Application numberEP 87305594
Classification (CPC)B65D55/02 +2 more

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