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Thin-laminate panels for capacitive printed-circuit boards and methods for making the same

EP 1038417 B1 · Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC WORKS, LTD.

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  • Filed October 12, 1999 and granted February 15, 2006. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended October 12, 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 April 12, 2025.
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FiledOctober 12, 1999
PublishedSeptember 27, 2000
GrantedFebruary 15, 2006
Term endedOctober 12, 2019
Application numberEP 99970553
Classification (CPC)H05K1/162 +2 more

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