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Preform for producing containers with an inner partition from a thermoplastic material

EP 0868280 B1 · Applicant: SIDEL

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  • Filed December 11, 1996 and granted August 29, 2001. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended December 11, 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 June 11, 2022.
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FiledDecember 11, 1996
PublishedOctober 7, 1998
GrantedAugust 29, 2001
Term endedDecember 11, 2016
Application numberEP 96942386
Classification (CPC)B29C49/071

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