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Semiconductor device having a base

EP 0756325 B1 · Applicant: Philips Electronics N.V.

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  • Filed July 24, 1996 and granted November 27, 2002. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended July 24, 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 January 24, 2022.
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FiledJuly 24, 1996
PublishedJanuary 29, 1997
GrantedNovember 27, 2002
Term endedJuly 24, 2016
Application numberEP 96202089
Classification (CPC)H10W20/40 +2 more

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