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Oxo-acetals of polyvinyl alcohols, process for their manufacture and use thereof

EP 0505939 B1 · Applicant: HOECHST AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT

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  • Filed March 20, 1992 and granted October 11, 1995. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended March 20, 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 September 20, 2017.
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FiledMarch 20, 1992
PublishedSeptember 30, 1992
GrantedOctober 11, 1995
Term endedMarch 20, 2012
Application numberEP 92104868
Classification (CPC)C08F8/28

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