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Polyamide or polyester compositions

EP 0868486 B1 · Applicant: E.I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY

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  • Filed December 20, 1996 and granted November 24, 2004. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended December 20, 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 20, 2022.
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FiledDecember 20, 1996
PublishedOctober 7, 1998
GrantedNovember 24, 2004
Term endedDecember 20, 2016
Application numberEP 96944415
Classification (CPC)C08K5/34928

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