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Solid-state means carrier, its manufacture and its use in a fluid cooling system of such means

EP 0002996 B1 · Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation

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  • Filed November 17, 1978 and granted September 29, 1982. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended November 17, 1998.
  • 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, 2004.
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FiledNovember 17, 1978
PublishedJuly 11, 1979
GrantedSeptember 29, 1982
Term endedNovember 17, 1998
Application numberEP 78430019
Classification (CPC)C23C14/16 +2 more

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1979198119831985198719891991199319951997Application filedNov 17, 1978PublishedJuly 11, 1979Patent grantedSep 29, 1982Term endedNov 17, 1998

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