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Image forming apparatus

EP 1870775 B1 · Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.

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  • Filed November 30, 2001 and granted November 11, 2015. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended November 30, 2021.
  • Supplementary protection certificates extend only medicine and crop-protection patents, and it isn't classified as either.
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FiledNovember 30, 2001
PublishedDecember 26, 2007
GrantedNovember 11, 2015
Term endedNovember 30, 2021
Application numberEP 07019428
Classification (CPC)G03G13/20 +2 more

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