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Cosmetic and/or pharmaceutical emulsions

EP 0773017 B1 · Applicant: Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien

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  • Filed October 31, 1996 and granted December 19, 2001. 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 14, 1997
GrantedDecember 19, 2001
Term endedOctober 31, 2016
Application numberEP 96117486
Classification (CPC)A61K9/0014 +2 more

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