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Enhancement of optically variable images

EP 0870071 A1 · Applicant: MSC Specialty Films, Inc.

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  • Filed December 23, 1994 and never granted as a European patent. Had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended December 23, 2014.
  • 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 June 23, 2020.
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FiledDecember 23, 1994
PublishedOctober 14, 1998
GrantedNever granted
Term endedDecember 23, 2014
Application numberEP 95907956
Classification (CPC)G03H1/02 +1 more

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