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Vacuum toilet system

EP 0887478 B1 · Applicant: Dometic GmbH

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  • Filed February 18, 1998 and granted May 7, 2003. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended February 18, 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 August 18, 2023.
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FiledFebruary 18, 1998
PublishedDecember 30, 1998
GrantedMay 7, 2003
Term endedFebruary 18, 2018
Application numberEP 98102838
Classification (CPC)E03F1/006

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