Expired European patentEurope
Line ink jet head and a printer using the same
EP 1043159 B1 · Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
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Listed from its EPO record in Patent Yard's archive of European patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the EPO PDF and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
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- Filed April 5, 2000 and granted July 23, 2003. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended April 5, 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 October 5, 2025.
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FiledApril 5, 2000
PublishedOctober 11, 2000
GrantedJuly 23, 2003
Term endedApril 5, 2020
Application numberEP 00107089
Classification (CPC)B41J2/14314 +1 more
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