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Apparatus for performing chemical-mechanical planarization

EP 1156903 B1 · Applicant: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.

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  • Filed September 13, 2000 and granted December 7, 2005. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended September 13, 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 March 13, 2026.
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FiledSeptember 13, 2000
PublishedNovember 28, 2001
GrantedDecember 7, 2005
Term endedSeptember 13, 2020
Application numberEP 00981001
Classification (CPC)B24B27/0076 +2 more

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