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Electro-optic displays

EP 0823067 B1 · Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Company, A Delaware Corporation

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  • Filed April 29, 1996 and granted July 31, 2002. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended April 29, 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 October 29, 2021.
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FiledApril 29, 1996
PublishedFebruary 11, 1998
GrantedJuly 31, 2002
Term endedApril 29, 2016
Application numberEP 96912099
Classification (CPC)G02F1/13439

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