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Apparatus for aerobic biological treatment of aqueous organic wastes

EP 0835845 B1 · Applicant: Kurita Water Industries Ltd.

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  • Filed October 10, 1996 and granted September 12, 2001. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended October 10, 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 April 10, 2022.
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FiledOctober 10, 1996
PublishedApril 15, 1998
GrantedSeptember 12, 2001
Term endedOctober 10, 2016
Application numberEP 96307395
Classification (CPC)C02F3/1221 +1 more

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