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Method and tool to separate workpieces adhesively bonded together

EP 0032384 B1 · Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation

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Listed from its EPO record in Patent Yard's archive of European patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the EPO PDF and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.

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  • Filed January 8, 1981 and granted November 13, 1985. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended January 8, 2001.
  • 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 July 8, 2006.
  • We check European rights only. A US or other national patent in its family could still be in force: check its family on Espacenet or Google Patents.
FiledJanuary 8, 1981
PublishedJuly 22, 1981
GrantedNovember 13, 1985
Term endedJanuary 8, 2001
Application numberEP 81100086
Classification (CPC)G03F1/62 +2 more

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1982198419861988199019921994199619982000Application filedJan 8, 1981PublishedJuly 22, 1981Patent grantedNov 13, 1985Term endedJan 8, 2001

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