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EP 0879870 B1 · Applicant: DSM Chemie Linz GmbH

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  • Filed May 16, 1998 and granted August 29, 2001. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended May 16, 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 16, 2023.
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FiledMay 16, 1998
PublishedNovember 25, 1998
GrantedAugust 29, 2001
Term endedMay 16, 2018
Application numberEP 98108970
Classification (CPC)C09K3/10 +1 more

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