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Moisture-reduced, formulated food product

EP 1052908 B1 · Applicant: SOCIETE DES PRODUITS NESTLE S.A.

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  • Filed January 27, 1999 and granted December 12, 2001. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended January 27, 2019.
  • 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 July 27, 2024.
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FiledJanuary 27, 1999
PublishedNovember 22, 2000
GrantedDecember 12, 2001
Term endedJanuary 27, 2019
Application numberEP 99906204
Classification (CPC)A23K50/42 +2 more

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