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A heat mode recording material and method for producing driographic printing plates

EP 0830940 B1 · Applicant: AGFA-GEVAERT N.V.

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  • Filed September 10, 1997 and granted July 24, 2002. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended September 10, 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 March 10, 2023.
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FiledSeptember 10, 1997
PublishedMarch 25, 1998
GrantedJuly 24, 2002
Term endedSeptember 10, 2017
Application numberEP 97202779
Classification (CPC)B41C1/1016

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