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Process for the preliminary heating of semiconductor bodies in view of subsequently increasing their internal gettering effect

EP 0008661 B1 · Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation

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  • Filed July 25, 1979 and granted October 5, 1983. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended July 25, 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 January 25, 2005.
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FiledJuly 25, 1979
PublishedMarch 19, 1980
GrantedOctober 5, 1983
Term endedJuly 25, 1999
Application numberEP 79102641
Classification (CPC)C30B33/00 +2 more

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1980198219841986198819901992199419961998Application filedJuly 25, 1979PublishedMarch 19, 1980Patent grantedOct 5, 1983Term endedJuly 25, 1999

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