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Electrostatic recorder

EP 1008916 B1 · Applicant: Nippon Steel Corporation

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  • Filed October 29, 1996 and granted August 13, 2003. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended October 29, 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 April 29, 2022.
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FiledOctober 29, 1996
PublishedJune 14, 2000
GrantedAugust 13, 2003
Term endedOctober 29, 2016
Application numberEP 96935486
Classification (CPC)G03G15/10 +2 more

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