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Drinking water additive for birds and method of administering the same

EP 1031287 B1 · Applicant: Calpis Co., Ltd.

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  • Filed February 17, 1998 and granted September 12, 2007. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended February 17, 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 August 17, 2023.
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FiledFebruary 17, 1998
PublishedAugust 30, 2000
GrantedSeptember 12, 2007
Term endedFebruary 17, 2018
Application numberEP 98902250
Classification (CPC)A23K40/00 +2 more

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