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EP 0835212 B1 · Applicant: Impress Group B.V.

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  • Filed April 24, 1997 and granted July 27, 2005. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended April 24, 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 October 24, 2022.
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FiledApril 24, 1997
PublishedApril 15, 1998
GrantedJuly 27, 2005
Term endedApril 24, 2017
Application numberEP 97922869
Classification (CPC)B21D51/30 +2 more

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