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Gene imparting flocculability to yeast and gene product

EP 0759465 B1 · Applicant: KIRIN BEER KABUSHIKI KAISHA

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  • Filed January 31, 1996 and granted March 29, 2006. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended January 31, 2016.
  • 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 31, 2021.
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FiledJanuary 31, 1996
PublishedFebruary 26, 1997
GrantedMarch 29, 2006
Term endedJanuary 31, 2016
Application numberEP 96901494
Classification (CPC)C07K14/395

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