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A method of controlling test probes in a testing apparatus for electronic printed circuit boards, and an apparatus for performing the method

EP 1018030 B1 · Applicant: TELLABS DENMARK A/S

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  • Filed September 14, 1998 and granted November 20, 2002. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended September 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 March 14, 2024.
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FiledSeptember 14, 1998
PublishedJuly 12, 2000
GrantedNovember 20, 2002
Term endedSeptember 14, 2018
Application numberEP 98942515
Classification (CPC)G01R31/2808

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