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Hydrofluorocarbon compositions

EP 1179579 B1 · Applicant: E.I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY

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  • Filed November 3, 1997 and granted March 11, 2009. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended November 3, 2017.
  • 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 3, 2023.
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FiledNovember 3, 1997
PublishedFebruary 13, 2002
GrantedMarch 11, 2009
Term endedNovember 3, 2017
Application numberEP 01202969
Classification (CPC)C09K3/30 +1 more

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