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Optical fiber resistant to hydrogen-induced attenuation

EP 0772061 B1 · Applicant: CORNING INCORPORATED

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  • Filed October 30, 1996 and granted July 23, 2003. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended October 30, 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 April 30, 2022.
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FiledOctober 30, 1996
PublishedMay 7, 1997
GrantedJuly 23, 2003
Term endedOctober 30, 2016
Application numberEP 96117397
Classification (CPC)G02B6/02 +2 more

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