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Process for drying sewage sludge or sludges of similar consistency

EP 0880477 B1 · Applicant: Gebrüder Lödige Maschinenbaugesellschaft mbH

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  • Filed January 16, 1997 and granted April 17, 2002. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended January 16, 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 16, 2022.
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FiledJanuary 16, 1997
PublishedDecember 2, 1998
GrantedApril 17, 2002
Term endedJanuary 16, 2017
Application numberEP 97914056
Classification (CPC)C02F11/13 +2 more

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