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Booklet album of photographs and photograph binding apparatus

EP 0518331 B1 · Applicant: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.

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  • Filed June 11, 1992 and granted October 16, 1996. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended June 11, 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 December 11, 2017.
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FiledJune 11, 1992
PublishedDecember 16, 1992
GrantedOctober 16, 1996
Term endedJune 11, 2012
Application numberEP 92109854
Classification (CPC)B42D3/002 +1 more

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