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Process and cleaner for cleaning sanitary equipment

EP 0447540 B1 · Applicant: Becker, Klaus, Dr.

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  • Filed October 11, 1990 and granted September 14, 1994. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended October 11, 2010.
  • 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 April 11, 2016.
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FiledOctober 11, 1990
PublishedSeptember 25, 1991
GrantedSeptember 14, 1994
Term endedOctober 11, 2010
Application numberEP 90916257
Classification (CPC)C11D3/48 +2 more

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1991199319951997199920012003200520072009Application filedOct 11, 1990PublishedSep 25, 1991Patent grantedSep 14, 1994Term endedOct 11, 2010

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