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Color-picture analyzing apparatus for continuously switching-on green lamp and for alternatively switching-on blue and red-purpose lamps

EP 0150145 B1 · Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA

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  • Filed January 11, 1985 and granted August 21, 1991. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended January 11, 2005.
  • 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 July 11, 2010.
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FiledJanuary 11, 1985
PublishedJuly 31, 1985
GrantedAugust 21, 1991
Term endedJanuary 11, 2005
Application numberEP 85400046
Classification (CPC)H04N1/484

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1986198819901992199419961998200020022004Application filedJan 11, 1985PublishedJuly 31, 1985Patent grantedAug 21, 1991Term endedJan 11, 2005

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