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Anisotropic silicon etching in fluorinated plasma

EP 0200951 B1 · Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation

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  • Filed April 11, 1986 and granted December 1, 1993. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended April 11, 2006.
  • 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 October 11, 2011.
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FiledApril 11, 1986
PublishedDecember 17, 1986
GrantedDecember 1, 1993
Term endedApril 11, 2006
Application numberEP 86105006
Classification (CPC)H10P50/242

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1987198919911993199519971999200120032005Application filedApril 11, 1986PublishedDec 17, 1986Patent grantedDec 1, 1993Term endedApril 11, 2006

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