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Process for improving secondary coffee extracts in the production of soluble coffee

EP 0474005 B1 · Applicant: Kraft Jacobs Suchard SA

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  • Filed August 19, 1991 and granted July 20, 1994. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended August 19, 2011.
  • 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 February 19, 2017.
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FiledAugust 19, 1991
PublishedMarch 11, 1992
GrantedJuly 20, 1994
Term endedAugust 19, 2011
Application numberEP 91113834
Classification (CPC)A23F5/185

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1992199419961998200020022004200620082010Application filedAug 19, 1991PublishedMarch 11, 1992Patent grantedJuly 20, 1994Term endedAug 19, 2011

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