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A method of recycling batches of mixed color cullet into amber, green, or flint glass with selected properties

EP 1077902 B1 · Applicant: Culchrome, LLC

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  • Filed April 1, 1999 and granted November 2, 2011. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended April 1, 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 October 1, 2024.
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FiledApril 1, 1999
PublishedFebruary 28, 2001
GrantedNovember 2, 2011
Term endedApril 1, 2019
Application numberEP 99916289
Classification (CPC)C03C4/02 +1 more

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