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Hydrocarbon stream antifoulant method

EP 0877072 B1 · Applicant: The Lubrizol Corporation

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  • Filed April 28, 1998 and granted June 25, 2003. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended April 28, 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 October 28, 2023.
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FiledApril 28, 1998
PublishedNovember 11, 1998
GrantedJune 25, 2003
Term endedApril 28, 2018
Application numberEP 98303287
Classification (CPC)C10G75/04 +1 more

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