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Method and arrangement for establishing and operating a time division broadband communication in a TDM exchange

EP 0156339 B1 · Applicant: ALCATEL N.V.

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  • Filed March 23, 1985 and granted July 24, 1991. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended March 23, 2005.
  • 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 23, 2010.
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FiledMarch 23, 1985
PublishedOctober 2, 1985
GrantedJuly 24, 1991
Term endedMarch 23, 2005
Application numberEP 85103465
Classification (CPC)H04Q11/04

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