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EP 1070751 B1 · Applicant: OTSUKA CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED

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  • Filed February 8, 2000 and granted November 26, 2003. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended February 8, 2020.
  • 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 8, 2025.
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FiledFebruary 8, 2000
PublishedJanuary 24, 2001
GrantedNovember 26, 2003
Term endedFebruary 8, 2020
Application numberEP 00902149
Classification (CPC)F16D69/026

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