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Apparatus for producing high gravity half-tone dot images using an electrophotographic recording apparatus

EP 0677948 B1 · Applicant: Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG

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  • Filed February 4, 1994 and granted August 26, 1998. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended February 4, 2014.
  • 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 August 4, 2019.
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FiledFebruary 4, 1994
PublishedOctober 18, 1995
GrantedAugust 26, 1998
Term endedFebruary 4, 2014
Application numberEP 95111055
Classification (CPC)G03G15/065 +2 more

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1995199719992001200320052007200920112013Application filedFeb 4, 1994PublishedOct 18, 1995Patent grantedAug 26, 1998Term endedFeb 4, 2014

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