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Multi-gigahertz frequency-modulated vertical-cavity surface emitting laser

EP 0830718 B1 · Applicant: Honeywell Inc.

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  • Filed May 28, 1996 and granted September 27, 2000. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended May 28, 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 November 28, 2021.
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FiledMay 28, 1996
PublishedMarch 25, 1998
GrantedSeptember 27, 2000
Term endedMay 28, 2016
Application numberEP 96921224
Classification (CPC)H01S5/183 +1 more

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