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Method for producing alkylene glycol esters with limited homologue distribution

EP 1007500 B1 · Applicant: Cognis Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG

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  • Filed August 17, 1998 and granted November 13, 2002. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended August 17, 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 February 17, 2024.
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FiledAugust 17, 1998
PublishedJune 14, 2000
GrantedNovember 13, 2002
Term endedAugust 17, 2018
Application numberEP 98946355
Classification (CPC)C11D1/86 +2 more

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