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Aerosol dispensing container and method for assembling same

EP 0869908 B1 · Applicant: U.S. Can Company

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  • Filed May 7, 1997 and granted April 16, 2003. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended May 7, 2017.
  • 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 November 7, 2022.
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FiledMay 7, 1997
PublishedOctober 14, 1998
GrantedApril 16, 2003
Term endedMay 7, 2017
Application numberEP 97926418
Classification (CPC)B65D83/62

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