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EP 0874752 B1 · Applicant: BOOMSMA PRODUKTIE B.V.

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  • Filed January 20, 1997 and granted June 23, 1999. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended January 20, 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 July 20, 2022.
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FiledJanuary 20, 1997
PublishedNovember 4, 1998
GrantedJune 23, 1999
Term endedJanuary 20, 2017
Application numberEP 97901267
Classification (CPC)E06B3/585 +2 more

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