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Freezing a gas component in a gas mixture

EP 1028792 B1 · Applicant: FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH GMBH

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  • Filed November 5, 1998 and granted December 18, 2002. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended November 5, 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 May 5, 2024.
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FiledNovember 5, 1998
PublishedAugust 23, 2000
GrantedDecember 18, 2002
Term endedNovember 5, 2018
Application numberEP 98962246
Classification (CPC)B01D8/00 +1 more

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