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Method of molding automobile outer trim part, laminated film or sheet for use therein and automobile outer trim part

EP 0868995 B1 · Applicant: Grand Polymer Co., Ltd.

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  • Filed March 27, 1998 and granted September 19, 2001. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended March 27, 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 27, 2023.
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FiledMarch 27, 1998
PublishedOctober 7, 1998
GrantedSeptember 19, 2001
Term endedMarch 27, 2018
Application numberEP 98302375
Classification (CPC)B29C69/02 +2 more

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