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Film supply and take-up apparatus

EP 1070278 B1 · Applicant: IMAX CORPORATION

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  • Filed March 17, 1999 and granted November 21, 2001. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended March 17, 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 September 17, 2024.
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FiledMarch 17, 1999
PublishedJanuary 24, 2001
GrantedNovember 21, 2001
Term endedMarch 17, 2019
Application numberEP 99908705
Classification (CPC)G03B21/32

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