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Apparatus for nighttime and low visibility alignment of communicators

EP 0047779 B1 · Applicant: Hughes Aircraft Company

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  • Filed March 13, 1981 and granted June 4, 1986. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended March 13, 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 September 13, 2006.
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FiledMarch 13, 1981
PublishedMarch 24, 1982
GrantedJune 4, 1986
Term endedMarch 13, 2001
Application numberEP 81900903
Classification (CPC)H04B10/1123 +2 more

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1982198419861988199019921994199619982000Application filedMarch 13, 1981PublishedMarch 24, 1982Patent grantedJune 4, 1986Term endedMarch 13, 2001

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