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Improved method for providing permanent images

EP 0099731 B1 · Applicant: MINNESOTA MINING AND MANUFACTURING COMPANY

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  • Filed July 14, 1983 and granted September 14, 1988. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended July 14, 2003.
  • 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 14, 2009.
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FiledJuly 14, 1983
PublishedFebruary 1, 1984
GrantedSeptember 14, 1988
Term endedJuly 14, 2003
Application numberEP 83304092
Classification (CPC)B41M5/398

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1984198619881990199219941996199820002002Application filedJuly 14, 1983PublishedFeb 1, 1984Patent grantedSep 14, 1988Term endedJuly 14, 2003

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