Expired European patentEurope
Method for manufacturing a stamper
EP 0488239 B1 · Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
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- Filed November 27, 1991 and granted July 30, 1997. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended November 27, 2011.
- 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 27, 2017.
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FiledNovember 27, 1991
PublishedJune 3, 1992
GrantedJuly 30, 1997
Term endedNovember 27, 2011
Application numberEP 91120307
Classification (CPC)C23C14/0005 +2 more
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