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Removal of metals and color bodies from chemically recycled bisphenol-A

EP 0816319 B1 · Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY

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  • Filed July 1, 1997 and granted June 13, 2001. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended July 1, 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 January 1, 2023.
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FiledJuly 1, 1997
PublishedJanuary 7, 1998
GrantedJune 13, 2001
Term endedJuly 1, 2017
Application numberEP 97304754
Classification (CPC)C07C37/74

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