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Phenol resin composition and method of producing phenol resin

EP 0877040 B1 · Applicant: DAINIPPON INK AND CHEMICALS, INC.

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  • Filed May 7, 1998 and granted April 12, 2000. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended May 7, 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 November 7, 2023.
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FiledMay 7, 1998
PublishedNovember 11, 1998
GrantedApril 12, 2000
Term endedMay 7, 2018
Application numberEP 98108347
Classification (CPC)C08L61/34 +2 more

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