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Progressive addition lenses with varying power profiles

EP 1078295 B1 · Applicant: Johson & Johnson Vision Care Inc.

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  • Filed February 15, 2000 and granted April 21, 2004. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended February 15, 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 August 15, 2025.
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FiledFebruary 15, 2000
PublishedFebruary 28, 2001
GrantedApril 21, 2004
Term endedFebruary 15, 2020
Application numberEP 00908649
Classification (CPC)G02C7/061 +2 more

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