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Off-shore sewage treating and handling apparatus and method

EP 0886599 B1 · Applicant: Allen, John Leon

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  • Filed March 12, 1997 and granted October 2, 2002. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended March 12, 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 September 12, 2022.
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FiledMarch 12, 1997
PublishedOctober 2, 2002
GrantedOctober 2, 2002
Term endedMarch 12, 2017
Application numberEP 97917388
Classification (CPC)B63B35/44

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