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EP 0053475 B1 · Applicant: SONY CORPORATION

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Why it's free to use

  • Filed November 25, 1981 and granted April 1, 1987. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended November 25, 2001.
  • 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 May 25, 2007.
  • 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.
FiledNovember 25, 1981
PublishedJune 9, 1982
GrantedApril 1, 1987
Term endedNovember 25, 2001
Application numberEP 81305574
Classification (CPC)G11B19/02 +2 more

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1982198419861988199019921994199619982000Application filedNov 25, 1981PublishedJune 9, 1982Patent grantedApril 1, 1987Term endedNov 25, 2001

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