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EP 0825035 B1 · Applicant: Izumi Soft Service Co. Ltd.

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  • Filed August 5, 1997 and granted May 28, 2003. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended August 5, 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 February 5, 2023.
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FiledAugust 5, 1997
PublishedFebruary 25, 1998
GrantedMay 28, 2003
Term endedAugust 5, 2017
Application numberEP 97113463
Classification (CPC)B42D5/027 +1 more

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