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Methods and apparatus for optically enhancing selected features in an input image

EP 0370752 A2 · Applicant: Philip Morris Products Inc.

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  • Filed November 21, 1989 and never granted as a European patent. Had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended November 21, 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 May 21, 2015.
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FiledNovember 21, 1989
PublishedMay 30, 1990
GrantedNever granted
Term endedNovember 21, 2009
Application numberEP 89312043
Classification (CPC)G06V10/88

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