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EP 1196331 B1 · Applicant: Crown Cork & Seal Technologies Corporation

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  • Filed July 5, 2000 and granted May 14, 2003. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended July 5, 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 January 5, 2026.
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FiledJuly 5, 2000
PublishedApril 17, 2002
GrantedMay 14, 2003
Term endedJuly 5, 2020
Application numberEP 00942280
Classification (CPC)B65D51/226

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