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Toner dispensing cartridge having a nonrotatable toner cup and a rotatable sleeve-cap

EP 0760113 B1 · Applicant: International Communication Materials, Inc.

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  • Filed March 15, 1996 and granted December 8, 1999. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended March 15, 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 September 15, 2021.
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FiledMarch 15, 1996
PublishedMarch 5, 1997
GrantedDecember 8, 1999
Term endedMarch 15, 2016
Application numberEP 96911301
Classification (CPC)G03G15/0868

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