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Device and method for the preliminary disintegration of fibrous plants and for shortening the same as well as for separating fibres and wood chips

EP 1066113 B1 · Applicant: Hesch, Rolf, Prof. Dr.

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  • Filed March 18, 1999 and granted September 4, 2002. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended March 18, 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 September 18, 2024.
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FiledMarch 18, 1999
PublishedJanuary 10, 2001
GrantedSeptember 4, 2002
Term endedMarch 18, 2019
Application numberEP 99922046
Classification (CPC)D01B9/00 +1 more

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