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Cleanly removable veneer tape

EP 1007303 B1 · Applicant: MINNESOTA MINING AND MANUFACTURING COMPANY

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  • Filed October 3, 1997 and granted July 24, 2002. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended October 3, 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 April 3, 2023.
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FiledOctober 3, 1997
PublishedJune 14, 2000
GrantedJuly 24, 2002
Term endedOctober 3, 2017
Application numberEP 97909982
Classification (CPC)B27D1/00 +1 more

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