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Method of winding film on a spool and loading the spool with the film into a magazine and a system for carrying out the method

EP 0341741 B1 · Applicant: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.

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  • Filed May 12, 1989 and granted November 30, 1994. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended May 12, 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 November 12, 2014.
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FiledMay 12, 1989
PublishedNovember 15, 1989
GrantedNovember 30, 1994
Term endedMay 12, 2009
Application numberEP 89108616
Classification (CPC)G03B17/26

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1990199219941996199820002002200420062008Application filedMay 12, 1989PublishedNov 15, 1989Patent grantedNov 30, 1994Term endedMay 12, 2009

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