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Apparatus for surface treatment of synthetic organic polymer mouldings

EP 0285446 B1 · Applicant: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED

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  • Filed March 31, 1988 and granted September 30, 1992. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended March 31, 2008.
  • 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 October 1, 2013.
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FiledMarch 31, 1988
PublishedOctober 5, 1988
GrantedSeptember 30, 1992
Term endedMarch 31, 2008
Application numberEP 88302960
Classification (CPC)B29C59/16

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