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Energy resolved emission microscopy system and method

EP 0558177 B1 · Applicant: ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.

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  • Filed January 18, 1993 and granted April 12, 2000. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended January 18, 2013.
  • 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 July 18, 2018.
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FiledJanuary 18, 1993
PublishedSeptember 1, 1993
GrantedApril 12, 2000
Term endedJanuary 18, 2013
Application numberEP 93300290
Classification (CPC)G01R31/308 +1 more

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