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Process for purifying sucrose fatty acid esters

EP 0338464 B1 · Applicant: DAI-ICHI KOGYO SEIYAKU CO., LTD.

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  • Filed April 15, 1989 and granted July 30, 1997. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended April 15, 2009.
  • 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 15, 2014.
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FiledApril 15, 1989
PublishedOctober 25, 1989
GrantedJuly 30, 1997
Term endedApril 15, 2009
Application numberEP 89106776
Classification (CPC)C07H13/06

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