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Heating apparatus

EP 1024403 B1 · Applicant: FUJI PHOTO FILM CO., LTD.

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  • Filed January 28, 2000 and granted September 10, 2003. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended January 28, 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 28, 2025.
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FiledJanuary 28, 2000
PublishedAugust 2, 2000
GrantedSeptember 10, 2003
Term endedJanuary 28, 2020
Application numberEP 00101628
Classification (CPC)G03F7/26 +1 more

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