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EP 1005891 B1 · Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION

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  • Filed November 23, 1999 and granted July 9, 2003. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended November 23, 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 May 23, 2025.
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FiledNovember 23, 1999
PublishedJune 7, 2000
GrantedJuly 9, 2003
Term endedNovember 23, 2019
Application numberEP 99123369
Classification (CPC)B01D39/1692

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