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LED array PCB with adhesive rod lens

EP 1045453 B1 · Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Company

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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 March 7, 2000 and granted June 29, 2005. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended March 7, 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 September 7, 2025.
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FiledMarch 7, 2000
PublishedOctober 18, 2000
GrantedJune 29, 2005
Term endedMarch 7, 2020
Application numberEP 00301862
Classification (CPC)G02B3/00 +2 more

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2001200320052007200920112013201520172019Application filedMarch 7, 2000PublishedOct 18, 2000Patent grantedJune 29, 2005Term endedMarch 7, 2020

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