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Force transducer using optical wave guiding elements integrated in a substrate

EP 0360759 B1 · Applicant: CENTRE SUISSE D'ELECTRONIQUE ET DE MICROTECHNIQUE S.A.

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  • Filed September 20, 1989 and granted January 8, 1992. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended September 20, 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 March 20, 2015.
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FiledSeptember 20, 1989
PublishedMarch 28, 1990
GrantedJanuary 8, 1992
Term endedSeptember 20, 2009
Application numberEP 89810710
Classification (CPC)G01L1/243

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