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Moisture-curable, hot melt composition

EP 0824558 B1 · Applicant: MINNESOTA MINING AND MANUFACTURING COMPANY

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  • Filed March 26, 1996 and granted June 14, 2000. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended March 26, 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 26, 2021.
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FiledMarch 26, 1996
PublishedFebruary 25, 1998
GrantedJune 14, 2000
Term endedMarch 26, 2016
Application numberEP 96911401
Classification (CPC)C08G18/12 +2 more

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