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Process and apparatus for making extruded and cooked food products

EP 0815747 B1 · Applicant: SOCIETE DES PRODUITS NESTLE S.A.

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  • Filed June 30, 1996 and granted November 22, 2000. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended June 30, 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 December 30, 2021.
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FiledJune 30, 1996
PublishedJanuary 7, 1998
GrantedNovember 22, 2000
Term endedJune 30, 2016
Application numberEP 96201793
Classification (CPC)B29C48/022 +2 more

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