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Ethylene copolymers as sorbers of metallic ions from solutions

EP 0340975 B1 · Applicant: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED

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  • Filed April 27, 1989 and granted September 30, 1992. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended April 27, 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 27, 2014.
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FiledApril 27, 1989
PublishedNovember 8, 1989
GrantedSeptember 30, 1992
Term endedApril 27, 2009
Application numberEP 89304259
Classification (CPC)C02F1/285 +2 more

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