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Photographic developer and method for developing silver halide photographic light sensitive material by use thereof

EP 0874276 B1 · Applicant: KONICA CORPORATION

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  • Filed April 18, 1998 and granted October 4, 2000. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended April 18, 2018.
  • 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 18, 2023.
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FiledApril 18, 1998
PublishedOctober 28, 1998
GrantedOctober 4, 2000
Term endedApril 18, 2018
Application numberEP 98107101
Classification (CPC)G03C5/305 +1 more

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