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Bleaching of chemical pulp and treatment with a chelating agent

EP 1030943 B1 · Applicant: KEMIRA CHEMICALS OY

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  • Filed November 13, 1998 and granted February 13, 2002. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended November 13, 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 13, 2024.
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FiledNovember 13, 1998
PublishedAugust 30, 2000
GrantedFebruary 13, 2002
Term endedNovember 13, 2018
Application numberEP 98955593
Classification (CPC)D21C9/1057 +2 more

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