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Luminance delay control apparatus in PAL/SECAM television receiver

EP 0013596 B1 · Applicant: RCA CORPORATION

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  • Filed January 3, 1980 and granted November 23, 1983. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended January 3, 2000.
  • 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 July 3, 2005.
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FiledJanuary 3, 1980
PublishedJuly 23, 1980
GrantedNovember 23, 1983
Term endedJanuary 3, 2000
Application numberEP 80300020
Classification (CPC)H04N9/642

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1981198319851987198919911993199519971999Application filedJan 3, 1980PublishedJuly 23, 1980Patent grantedNov 23, 1983Term endedJan 3, 2000

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