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Precision coating process for preparing polymerizable films

EP 0759812 B1 · Applicant: MINNESOTA MINING AND MANUFACTURING COMPANY

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  • Filed April 7, 1995 and granted January 26, 2000. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended April 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 October 7, 2020.
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FiledApril 7, 1995
PublishedMarch 5, 1997
GrantedJanuary 26, 2000
Term endedApril 7, 2015
Application numberEP 95917560
Classification (CPC)B05C5/0254

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