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EP 0835546 B1 · Applicant: N.V. RAYCHEM S.A.

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  • Filed June 18, 1996 and granted October 25, 2000. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended June 18, 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 18, 2021.
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FiledJune 18, 1996
PublishedApril 15, 1998
GrantedOctober 25, 2000
Term endedJune 18, 2016
Application numberEP 96920941
Classification (CPC)H02G15/013 +1 more

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