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Optically programmed encoder apparatus and methods

EP 0885376 B1 · Applicant: Opto Generic Devices, Inc.

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  • Filed February 27, 1996 and granted December 27, 2006. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended February 27, 2016.
  • 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 August 27, 2021.
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FiledFebruary 27, 1996
PublishedDecember 23, 1998
GrantedDecember 27, 2006
Term endedFebruary 27, 2016
Application numberEP 96908483
Classification (CPC)G01D5/36 +2 more

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