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Method for making integrated circuits having features with reduced critical dimensions

EP 1096551 A2 · Applicant: LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES INC.

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  • Filed October 16, 2000 and never granted as a European patent. Had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended October 16, 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 April 16, 2026.
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FiledOctober 16, 2000
PublishedMay 2, 2001
GrantedNever granted
Term endedOctober 16, 2020
Application numberEP 00309101
Classification (CPC)H10P50/71 +2 more

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