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Plasma processing chamber and method of treating substrates in a plasma processing chamber

EP 0673056 B1 · Applicant: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.

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  • Filed March 15, 1995 and granted December 17, 1997. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended March 15, 2015.
  • 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 15, 2020.
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FiledMarch 15, 1995
PublishedSeptember 20, 1995
GrantedDecember 17, 1997
Term endedMarch 15, 2015
Application numberEP 95103767
Classification (CPC)H01J37/32559 +1 more

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