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Mercury-free metal halide lamp

EP 1037258 B1 · Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.

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  • Filed February 17, 1999 and granted April 15, 2009. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended February 17, 2019.
  • 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 August 17, 2024.
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FiledFebruary 17, 1999
PublishedSeptember 20, 2000
GrantedApril 15, 2009
Term endedFebruary 17, 2019
Application numberEP 99905225
Classification (CPC)H01J61/12

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