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Filter material containing thermoplastic elastomeric copolyetherester, process for its production, its use and filter press containing it

EP 0868933 B1 · Applicant: Hoechst Trevira GmbH & Co. KG

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  • Filed March 30, 1998 and granted February 20, 2002. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended March 30, 2018.
  • 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 September 30, 2023.
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FiledMarch 30, 1998
PublishedOctober 7, 1998
GrantedFebruary 20, 2002
Term endedMarch 30, 2018
Application numberEP 98105781
Classification (CPC)B01D39/083

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