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Method for controlling catalytic distillation etherifications

EP 0664778 B1 · Applicant: CHEMICAL RESEARCH & LICENSING COMPANY

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  • Filed October 14, 1993 and granted February 25, 1998. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended October 14, 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 April 14, 2019.
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FiledOctober 14, 1993
PublishedAugust 2, 1995
GrantedFebruary 25, 1998
Term endedOctober 14, 2013
Application numberEP 93924318
Classification (CPC)C07C41/06 +2 more

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