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Apparatus for supplying solid material to a biogas producing plant

EP 1170357 B1 · Applicant: U.T.S. Umwelt-Technik-Süd GmbH

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  • Filed November 17, 2000 and granted March 2, 2005. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended November 17, 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 May 17, 2026.
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FiledNovember 17, 2000
PublishedJanuary 9, 2002
GrantedMarch 2, 2005
Term endedNovember 17, 2020
Application numberEP 00125062
Classification (CPC)C12M21/04 +2 more

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