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Manufacturing process for high cis poly(butadiene)

EP 0770631 B1 · Applicant: THE DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY

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  • Filed October 16, 1996 and granted June 21, 2000. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended October 16, 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 April 16, 2022.
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FiledOctober 16, 1996
PublishedMay 2, 1997
GrantedJune 21, 2000
Term endedOctober 16, 2016
Application numberEP 96202878
Classification (CPC)C08F136/06

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