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Process for removing titanium or vanadium alkoxide from liquid hydrocarbon mixtures

EP 0771776 B1 · Applicant: UNION CARBIDE CHEMICALS & PLASTICS TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION

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  • Filed October 31, 1996 and granted March 17, 1999. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended October 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 May 1, 2022.
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FiledOctober 31, 1996
PublishedMay 7, 1997
GrantedMarch 17, 1999
Term endedOctober 31, 2016
Application numberEP 96307892
Classification (CPC)C07C17/38 +2 more

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1997199920012003200520072009201120132015Application filedOct 31, 1996PublishedMay 7, 1997Patent grantedMarch 17, 1999Term endedOct 31, 2016

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