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EP 0624142 B1 · Applicant: GENERAL MILLS, INC.

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  • Filed January 29, 1993 and granted July 22, 1998. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended January 29, 2013.
  • 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 29, 2018.
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FiledJanuary 29, 1993
PublishedNovember 17, 1994
GrantedJuly 22, 1998
Term endedJanuary 29, 2013
Application numberEP 93904767
Classification (CPC)B65D81/3469

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