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Reduction of residual chloride in iron oxides

EP 0827488 B1 · Applicant: SHELL INTERNATIONALE RESEARCH MAATSCHAPPIJ B.V.

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  • Filed April 11, 1996 and granted July 14, 1999. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended April 11, 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 October 11, 2021.
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FiledApril 11, 1996
PublishedMarch 11, 1998
GrantedJuly 14, 1999
Term endedApril 11, 2016
Application numberEP 96910967
Classification (CPC)C01G49/02

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