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Process and apparatus for the manufacturing of flexographic printing plates

EP 0818711 B1 · Applicant: Schablonentechnik Kufstein Aktiengesellschaft

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  • Filed September 22, 1992 and granted August 6, 2003. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended September 22, 2012.
  • 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 March 22, 2018.
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FiledSeptember 22, 1992
PublishedJanuary 14, 1998
GrantedAugust 6, 2003
Term endedSeptember 22, 2012
Application numberEP 97117794
Classification (CPC)G03F7/2018

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