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Method and arrangement for drying a fiber web

EP 1009875 B1 · Applicant: Metso Paper, Inc.

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  • Filed March 19, 1998 and granted October 16, 2002. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended March 19, 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 September 19, 2023.
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FiledMarch 19, 1998
PublishedJune 21, 2000
GrantedOctober 16, 2002
Term endedMarch 19, 2018
Application numberEP 98910753
Classification (CPC)D21F5/004 +1 more

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