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Waterfast infrared scannable inks for ink jet printing

EP 0822237 B1 · Applicant: Scitex Digital Printing, Inc.

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  • Filed June 18, 1997 and granted August 8, 2001. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended June 18, 2017.
  • 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 December 18, 2022.
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FiledJune 18, 1997
PublishedFebruary 4, 1998
GrantedAugust 8, 2001
Term endedJune 18, 2017
Application numberEP 97304278
Classification (CPC)C09D11/30 +1 more

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