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Method for producing nitrogen trifluoride by gas-solid reaction

EP 0959040 B1 · Applicant: Central Glass Company, Limited

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  • Filed May 20, 1999 and granted August 6, 2003. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended May 20, 2019.
  • 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 20, 2024.
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FiledMay 20, 1999
PublishedNovember 24, 1999
GrantedAugust 6, 2003
Term endedMay 20, 2019
Application numberEP 99109947
Classification (CPC)C01B21/0832

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