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Method of producing a dental restoration using CAD/CAM

EP 0824897 B1 · Applicant: American Thermocraft Corp.

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  • Filed March 11, 1997 and granted July 25, 2001. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended March 11, 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 September 11, 2022.
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FiledMarch 11, 1997
PublishedFebruary 25, 1998
GrantedJuly 25, 2001
Term endedMarch 11, 2017
Application numberEP 97420039
Classification (CPC)A61C13/0004

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