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Sanitary ware and process for producing the same

EP 1176130 B1 · Applicant: Toto Ltd.

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  • Filed May 27, 1999 and granted September 3, 2008. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended May 27, 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 November 27, 2024.
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FiledMay 27, 1999
PublishedJanuary 30, 2002
GrantedSeptember 3, 2008
Term endedMay 27, 2019
Application numberEP 01124793
Classification (CPC)C04B41/009 +2 more

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