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Optical light spot scanning device for a photosensitive web material in optical photocomposing machines

EP 0126469 B1 · Applicant: Mannesmann Scangraphic GmbH

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  • Filed May 18, 1984 and granted March 14, 1990. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended May 18, 2004.
  • 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 November 18, 2009.
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FiledMay 18, 1984
PublishedNovember 28, 1984
GrantedMarch 14, 1990
Term endedMay 18, 2004
Application numberEP 84105717
Classification (CPC)H04N1/0657 +2 more

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