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Process for toning image-wise modified surfaces

EP 0109293 B1 · Applicant: E.I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY

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  • Filed November 11, 1983 and granted March 25, 1987. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended November 11, 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 May 11, 2009.
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FiledNovember 11, 1983
PublishedMay 23, 1984
GrantedMarch 25, 1987
Term endedNovember 11, 2003
Application numberEP 83306922
Classification (CPC)G03F7/28

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1984198619881990199219941996199820002002Application filedNov 11, 1983PublishedMay 23, 1984Patent grantedMarch 25, 1987Term endedNov 11, 2003

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