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Method of making long, fine diameter glass fibers and products made with such glass fibers

EP 1010673 B1 · Applicant: Johns Manville International, Inc.

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  • Filed October 30, 1999 and granted February 4, 2004. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended October 30, 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 April 30, 2025.
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FiledOctober 30, 1999
PublishedJune 21, 2000
GrantedFebruary 4, 2004
Term endedOctober 30, 2019
Application numberEP 99121639
Classification (CPC)C03B37/045 +2 more

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