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Water soluble films

EP 1060203 B1 · Applicant: Avecia Limited

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  • Filed February 25, 1999 and granted December 11, 2002. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended February 25, 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 August 25, 2024.
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FiledFebruary 25, 1999
PublishedDecember 20, 2000
GrantedDecember 11, 2002
Term endedFebruary 25, 2019
Application numberEP 99906323
Classification (CPC)C08G18/283 +2 more

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