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Molecular sieves and processes for their manufacture

EP 0873176 B1 · Applicant: EXXON CHEMICAL PATENTS INC.

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  • Filed December 2, 1996 and granted May 3, 2000. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended December 2, 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 2, 2022.
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FiledDecember 2, 1996
PublishedOctober 28, 1998
GrantedMay 3, 2000
Term endedDecember 2, 2016
Application numberEP 96943941
Classification (CPC)B01D69/1218 +2 more

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