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Line ink jet head and a printer using the same

EP 1043159 B1 · Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION

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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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