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Porous composite membrane and process

EP 0772488 B1 · Applicant: MILLIPORE CORPORATION

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  • Filed July 25, 1995 and granted January 31, 2001. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended July 25, 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 January 25, 2021.
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FiledJuly 25, 1995
PublishedMay 14, 1997
GrantedJanuary 31, 2001
Term endedJuly 25, 2015
Application numberEP 95928362
Classification (CPC)B01D69/125 +1 more

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