Expired European patentEurope
A method of providing a vertical interconnect between thin film microelectronic devices
EP 0966758 B1 · Applicant: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
Overview
The published document from the EPO: abstract, claims, description and drawings. Open it full size
Read the whole patent
Listed from its EPO record in Patent Yard's archive of European patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the EPO PDF and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Filed July 27, 1998 and granted August 26, 2015. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended July 27, 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 January 27, 2024.
- We check European rights only. A US or other national patent in its family could still be in force: check its family on Espacenet or Google Patents.
FiledJuly 27, 1998
PublishedDecember 29, 1999
GrantedAugust 26, 2015
Term endedJuly 27, 2018
Application numberEP 98932465
Classification (CPC)H10W20/056 +2 more
Timeline
Timeline From EPO dates
Sources & verification
Official EPO records
Everything on this page comes from the EPO record linked above. EPO data used under CC BY 4.0.