Patent Yard Sign in
Expired European patentEurope

Video disc support assembly

EP 0046000 B1 · Applicant: DISCOVISION ASSOCIATES

EPO PDF

Overview

The published document from the EPO: abstract, claims, description and drawings. Open it full size

Read the whole patent

Listed from its EPO record in Patent Yard's archive of European patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the EPO PDF and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.

Why it's free to use

  • Filed March 27, 1979 and granted November 14, 1990. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended March 27, 1999.
  • 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 September 27, 2004.
  • We check European rights only. A US or other national patent in its family could still be in force: check its family on Espacenet or Google Patents.
FiledMarch 27, 1979
PublishedFebruary 17, 1982
GrantedNovember 14, 1990
Term endedMarch 27, 1999
Application numberEP 81200909
Classification (CPC)G11B17/0287

Timeline

Timeline From EPO dates

1980198219841986198819901992199419961998Application filedMarch 27, 1979PublishedFeb 17, 1982Patent grantedNov 14, 1990Term endedMarch 27, 1999

Sources & verification