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Apparatus and methods for reducing plastics pipes

EP 0834034 B1 · Applicant: Thames Water Services Limited

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  • Filed May 21, 1996 and granted July 31, 2002. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended May 21, 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 November 21, 2021.
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FiledMay 21, 1996
PublishedApril 8, 1998
GrantedJuly 31, 2002
Term endedMay 21, 2016
Application numberEP 96914333
Classification (CPC)B29C53/20 +2 more

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