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Water-dispersible fibrous nonwoven coform composites

EP 0835337 B1 · Applicant: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.

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  • Filed June 26, 1996 and granted October 31, 2001. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended June 26, 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 December 26, 2021.
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FiledJune 26, 1996
PublishedApril 15, 1998
GrantedOctober 31, 2001
Term endedJune 26, 2016
Application numberEP 96921776
Classification (CPC)D04H5/08 +2 more

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