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Color image forming apparatus having mono-color image forming function

EP 0508121 A2 · Applicant: MITA INDUSTRIAL CO. LTD.

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  • Filed March 9, 1992 and never granted as a European patent. Had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended March 9, 2012.
  • 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 September 9, 2017.
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FiledMarch 9, 1992
PublishedOctober 14, 1992
GrantedNever granted
Term endedMarch 9, 2012
Application numberEP 92103988
Classification (CPC)H04N1/40012

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