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Manufacturing method of colour liquid crystal display

EP 0718664 B1 · Applicant: SEIKO INSTRUMENTS INC.

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  • Filed December 22, 1995 and granted March 14, 2001. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended December 22, 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 June 22, 2021.
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FiledDecember 22, 1995
PublishedJune 26, 1996
GrantedMarch 14, 2001
Term endedDecember 22, 2015
Application numberEP 95309428
Classification (CPC)G02F1/133516

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