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Group iii-nitride light-emitting device with increased light-generating capability

EP 1159766 B1 · Applicant: Philips Lumileds Lighting Company LLC

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  • Filed December 7, 2000 and granted August 2, 2017. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended December 7, 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 June 7, 2026.
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FiledDecember 7, 2000
PublishedDecember 5, 2001
GrantedAugust 2, 2017
Term endedDecember 7, 2020
Application numberEP 00984091
Classification (CPC)H10H20/831 +2 more

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