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Method and apparatus for determining the presence of an X-ray sheet film in a cassette installed in an X-ray cassette reloading and loading apparatus

EP 0302335 B1 · Applicant: Agfa-Gevaert AG

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  • Filed July 25, 1988 and granted September 16, 1992. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended July 25, 2008.
  • 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 25, 2014.
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FiledJuly 25, 1988
PublishedFebruary 8, 1989
GrantedSeptember 16, 1992
Term endedJuly 25, 2008
Application numberEP 88111929
Classification (CPC)G03B42/045

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1989199119931995199719992001200320052007Application filedJuly 25, 1988PublishedFeb 8, 1989Patent grantedSep 16, 1992Term endedJuly 25, 2008

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