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EP 1043242 B1 · Applicant: OWENS-ILLINOIS CLOSURE INC.,

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  • Filed April 23, 1993 and granted August 4, 2004. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended April 23, 2013.
  • 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 October 23, 2018.
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FiledApril 23, 1993
PublishedOctober 11, 2000
GrantedAugust 4, 2004
Term endedApril 23, 2013
Application numberEP 99203313
Classification (CPC)B65D41/0428

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