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Protection of electron-emissive elements prior to removing excess emitter material during fabrication of electron-emitting device

EP 1036403 B1 · Applicant: Candescent Technologies Corporation

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  • Filed October 27, 1998 and granted November 29, 2006. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended October 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 April 27, 2024.
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FiledOctober 27, 1998
PublishedSeptember 20, 2000
GrantedNovember 29, 2006
Term endedOctober 27, 2018
Application numberEP 98954016
Classification (CPC)H01J9/025

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