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Imaging element for making an improved printing plate according to the silver salt diffusion transfer process

EP 0751432 B1 · Applicant: AGFA-GEVAERT N.V.

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  • Filed May 20, 1996 and granted January 19, 2000. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended May 20, 2016.
  • 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 20, 2021.
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FiledMay 20, 1996
PublishedJanuary 2, 1997
GrantedJanuary 19, 2000
Term endedMay 20, 2016
Application numberEP 96201420
Classification (CPC)G03C8/06 +1 more

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