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Contactless jet printing method, printing ink composition therefor, and articles including containers bearing indicia, printed using said composition

EP 0025075 B1 · Applicant: AMERICAN CAN COMPANY

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  • Filed August 15, 1979 and granted March 14, 1984. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended August 15, 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 February 15, 2005.
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FiledAugust 15, 1979
PublishedMarch 18, 1981
GrantedMarch 14, 1984
Term endedAugust 15, 1999
Application numberEP 79301659
Classification (CPC)C09D11/36

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1980198219841986198819901992199419961998Application filedAug 15, 1979PublishedMarch 18, 1981Patent grantedMarch 14, 1984Term endedAug 15, 1999

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