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EP 1197826 B1 · Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA

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  • Filed September 18, 2000 and granted December 10, 2003. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended September 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 March 18, 2026.
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FiledSeptember 18, 2000
PublishedApril 17, 2002
GrantedDecember 10, 2003
Term endedSeptember 18, 2020
Application numberEP 00120390
Classification (CPC)G06F21/79

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