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Optical switching device

EP 1046079 B1 · Applicant: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.

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  • Filed September 8, 1999 and granted May 28, 2003. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended September 8, 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 March 8, 2025.
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FiledSeptember 8, 1999
PublishedOctober 25, 2000
GrantedMay 28, 2003
Term endedSeptember 8, 2019
Application numberEP 99946152
Classification (CPC)G02F1/19

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