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EP 0470137 B1 · Applicant: LOHMEYER, Hartmut

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  • Filed April 30, 1990 and granted March 23, 1994. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended April 30, 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 30, 2015.
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FiledApril 30, 1990
PublishedFebruary 12, 1992
GrantedMarch 23, 1994
Term endedApril 30, 2010
Application numberEP 90906940
Classification (CPC)A47C3/00

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