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EP 0830951 B1 · Applicant: LEXMARK INTERNATIONAL, INC.

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  • Filed September 22, 1997 and granted July 23, 2003. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended September 22, 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 22, 2023.
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FiledSeptember 22, 1997
PublishedMarch 25, 1998
GrantedJuly 23, 2003
Term endedSeptember 22, 2017
Application numberEP 97307372
Classification (CPC)B41J13/26

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