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EP 1081408 B1 · Applicant: Schnetz, Albert

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  • Filed August 28, 1999 and granted July 16, 2003. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended August 28, 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 February 28, 2025.
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FiledAugust 28, 1999
PublishedMarch 7, 2001
GrantedJuly 16, 2003
Term endedAugust 28, 2019
Application numberEP 99117008
Classification (CPC)F16F9/49 +1 more

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