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Ink catridge for ink jet recording apparatus

EP 0715958 B1 · Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION

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  • Filed May 27, 1992 and granted August 12, 1998. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended May 27, 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 November 27, 2017.
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FiledMay 27, 1992
PublishedJune 12, 1996
GrantedAugust 12, 1998
Term endedMay 27, 2012
Application numberEP 96103079
Classification (CPC)B41J2/17513

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