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EP 0816108 B1 · Applicant: ITW Limited

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  • Filed April 10, 1997 and granted June 28, 2000. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended April 10, 2017.
  • 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 October 10, 2022.
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FiledApril 10, 1997
PublishedJanuary 7, 1998
GrantedJune 28, 2000
Term endedApril 10, 2017
Application numberEP 97302467
Classification (CPC)B41J17/04 +1 more

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