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EP 0467945 B1 · Applicant: Coates Brothers PLC
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- Filed April 11, 1990 and granted October 25, 1995. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended April 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 October 11, 2015.
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FiledApril 11, 1990
PublishedJanuary 29, 1992
GrantedOctober 25, 1995
Term endedApril 11, 2010
Application numberEP 90906316
Classification (CPC)H05K3/4644 +1 more
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