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Method for removing hydrophobic impurities using cleavable nonionic surfactants

EP 1044166 A1 · Applicant: Cognis Deutschland GmbH

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  • Filed October 24, 1998 and never granted as a European patent. Had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended October 24, 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 April 24, 2024.
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FiledOctober 24, 1998
PublishedOctober 18, 2000
GrantedNever granted
Term endedOctober 24, 2018
Application numberEP 98955522
Classification (CPC)C02F9/00 +1 more

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