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Guar gum composition and process for making it

EP 0686643 B1 · Applicant: RHONE-POULENC INC.

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  • Filed June 7, 1995 and granted June 6, 2001. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended June 7, 2015.
  • 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 December 7, 2020.
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FiledJune 7, 1995
PublishedDecember 13, 1995
GrantedJune 6, 2001
Term endedJune 7, 2015
Application numberEP 95401312
Classification (CPC)C08B37/0096

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