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Process for enhancing the optical purity of 2r- 1-hydroxy- 1-trifluoromethyl- 3-cyclopropylpropyn-2yl] -4-chloroaniline

EP 1017666 B1 · Applicant: MERCK & CO., INC.

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  • Filed September 1, 1998 and granted November 5, 2003. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended September 1, 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 March 1, 2024.
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FiledSeptember 1, 1998
PublishedJuly 12, 2000
GrantedNovember 5, 2003
Term endedSeptember 1, 2018
Application numberEP 98942339
Classification (CPC)C07C213/10

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