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Processor for extracting and memorizing cell images, and method of practicing same

EP 0338370 B1 · Applicant: TOA MEDICAL ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.

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  • Filed April 10, 1989 and granted March 4, 1998. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended April 10, 2009.
  • 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 10, 2014.
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FiledApril 10, 1989
PublishedOctober 25, 1989
GrantedMarch 4, 1998
Term endedApril 10, 2009
Application numberEP 89106305
Classification (CPC)G06T1/0007

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