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Process for producing ethylene-vinyl ester copolymers, process for producing ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymers and process for producing shaped articles

EP 0495495 B1 · Applicant: KURARAY CO., LTD.

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  • Filed January 16, 1992 and granted December 27, 1996. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended January 16, 2012.
  • 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 July 16, 2017.
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FiledJanuary 16, 1992
PublishedJuly 22, 1992
GrantedDecember 27, 1996
Term endedJanuary 16, 2012
Application numberEP 92100662
Classification (CPC)C08F8/12 +2 more

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