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EP 1024347 B1 · Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation

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  • Filed January 26, 2000 and granted February 20, 2008. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended January 26, 2020.
  • 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 July 26, 2025.
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FiledJanuary 26, 2000
PublishedAugust 2, 2000
GrantedFebruary 20, 2008
Term endedJanuary 26, 2020
Application numberEP 00300559
Classification (CPC)G01C21/3647

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