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Process and device for manufacturing a tin can with a foil closure membrane, and semifinished can with a foil closure membrane

EP 0819086 B1 · Applicant: Grabher, Werner

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  • Filed March 30, 1996 and granted December 23, 1998. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended March 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 September 30, 2021.
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FiledMarch 30, 1996
PublishedJanuary 21, 1998
GrantedDecember 23, 1998
Term endedMarch 30, 2016
Application numberEP 96910945
Classification (CPC)B65D51/20 +2 more

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