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Diene rubber, process for producing the rubber and rubber composition containing the same

EP 0882738 B1 · Applicant: NIPPON ZEON CO., LTD.

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  • Filed February 24, 1997 and granted November 20, 2002. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended February 24, 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 August 24, 2022.
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FiledFebruary 24, 1997
PublishedDecember 9, 1998
GrantedNovember 20, 2002
Term endedFebruary 24, 2017
Application numberEP 97904623
Classification (CPC)B60C15/06 +2 more

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