Expired European patentEurope
Process for producing fibre light guides
EP 0132011 B1 · Applicant: Philips Electronics N.V.
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- Filed July 11, 1984 and granted March 7, 1990. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended July 11, 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 January 11, 2010.
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FiledJuly 11, 1984
PublishedJanuary 23, 1985
GrantedMarch 7, 1990
Term endedJuly 11, 2004
Application numberEP 84201022
Classification (CPC)C03B37/0183
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