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Electronic timepiece and display method of electronic timepiece

EP 0962841 B1 · Applicant: SEIKO INSTRUMENTS INC.

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  • Filed June 4, 1999 and granted November 16, 2005. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended June 4, 2019.
  • 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 December 4, 2024.
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FiledJune 4, 1999
PublishedDecember 8, 1999
GrantedNovember 16, 2005
Term endedJune 4, 2019
Application numberEP 99304361
Classification (CPC)G04G9/0076

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