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A vaporiser

EP 0873166 A1 · Applicant: Morris, Nigel

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  • Filed December 31, 1996 and never granted as a European patent. Had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended December 31, 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 July 1, 2022.
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FiledDecember 31, 1996
PublishedOctober 28, 1998
GrantedNever granted
Term endedDecember 31, 2016
Application numberEP 96943263
Classification (CPC)A63J5/025 +1 more

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