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Image forming apparatus and image forming apparatus pump

EP 1080910 B1 · Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA

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  • Filed August 18, 2000 and granted May 11, 2005. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended August 18, 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 February 18, 2026.
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FiledAugust 18, 2000
PublishedMarch 7, 2001
GrantedMay 11, 2005
Term endedAugust 18, 2020
Application numberEP 00117822
Classification (CPC)B41J2/17596 +1 more

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