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EP 0764601 B1 · Applicant: Denman Limited

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  • Filed September 19, 1996 and granted December 20, 2000. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended September 19, 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 March 19, 2022.
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FiledSeptember 19, 1996
PublishedMarch 26, 1997
GrantedDecember 20, 2000
Term endedSeptember 19, 2016
Application numberEP 96650041
Classification (CPC)B65H1/14

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