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Photographic emulsions and elements capable of forming direct-positive images

EP 0050558 B1 · Applicant: EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY (a New Jersey corporation)

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  • Filed October 14, 1981 and granted July 17, 1985. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended October 14, 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 April 14, 2007.
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FiledOctober 14, 1981
PublishedApril 28, 1982
GrantedJuly 17, 1985
Term endedOctober 14, 2001
Application numberEP 81401589
Classification (CPC)C07D215/12 +2 more

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1982198419861988199019921994199619982000Application filedOct 14, 1981PublishedApril 28, 1982Patent grantedJuly 17, 1985Term endedOct 14, 2001

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