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Silicon compound, method for making the same, and electroluminescent device using the same

EP 0879841 B1 · Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA

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  • Filed May 14, 1998 and granted October 30, 2002. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended May 14, 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 November 14, 2023.
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FiledMay 14, 1998
PublishedNovember 25, 1998
GrantedOctober 30, 2002
Term endedMay 14, 2018
Application numberEP 98303883
Classification (CPC)C08G77/60 +2 more

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