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Optical system having a camera shake compensating function

EP 0707229 B1 · Applicant: MINOLTA CO., LTD.

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  • Filed October 12, 1995 and granted September 19, 2001. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended October 12, 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 April 12, 2021.
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FiledOctober 12, 1995
PublishedApril 17, 1996
GrantedSeptember 19, 2001
Term endedOctober 12, 2015
Application numberEP 95116115
Classification (CPC)G02B27/646 +1 more

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