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Device for cleaning and/or drying after defecation

EP 1079720 B1 · Applicant: Market Migration Limited

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  • Filed March 15, 2000 and granted December 28, 2005. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended March 15, 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 September 15, 2025.
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FiledMarch 15, 2000
PublishedMarch 7, 2001
GrantedDecember 28, 2005
Term endedMarch 15, 2020
Application numberEP 00909533
Classification (CPC)A47K7/02

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