lobingera@jwildeboer This might be a wording issue ... but i'm not aware of a jurisdiction that provides protection retroactively. Patents are protected from the priority date which is the filing date. The granting date might be later - after some (or many) iterations of checks by the patent office. The 12 (or 18) months time is the publication date which follows the filing date.
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