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Analog to digital converting system for a video signal

EP 0103355 B1 · Applicant: SONY CORPORATION

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  • Filed June 14, 1983 and granted September 16, 1987. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended June 14, 2003.
  • 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 December 14, 2008.
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FiledJune 14, 1983
PublishedMarch 21, 1984
GrantedSeptember 16, 1987
Term endedJune 14, 2003
Application numberEP 83303437
Classification (CPC)H04N9/64

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1984198619881990199219941996199820002002Application filedJune 14, 1983PublishedMarch 21, 1984Patent grantedSep 16, 1987Term endedJune 14, 2003

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