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Data capture device by which handwritten alphanumeric characters are couverted to machine readable digital code

EP 0006013 A1 · Applicant: QUEST AUTOMATION LIMITED

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  • Filed May 31, 1979 and never granted as a European patent. Had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended May 31, 1999.
  • 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 December 1, 2004.
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FiledMay 31, 1979
PublishedDecember 12, 1979
GrantedNever granted
Term endedMay 31, 1999
Application numberEP 79301017
Classification (CPC)G06V10/12

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1980198219841986198819901992199419961998Application filedMay 31, 1979PublishedDec 12, 1979Term endedMay 31, 1999

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