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EP 1035716 B1 · Applicant: MANNESMANN Aktiengesellschaft

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  • Filed March 6, 2000 and granted July 19, 2017. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended March 6, 2020.
  • 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 September 6, 2025.
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FiledMarch 6, 2000
PublishedSeptember 13, 2000
GrantedJuly 19, 2017
Term endedMarch 6, 2020
Application numberEP 00250081
Classification (CPC)H04M3/4931

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