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Method and apparatus for recording and reproducing a digital signal with a stationary head

EP 0169540 B1 · Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.

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  • Filed July 23, 1985 and granted January 3, 1990. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended July 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 January 23, 2011.
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FiledJuly 23, 1985
PublishedJanuary 29, 1986
GrantedJanuary 3, 1990
Term endedJuly 23, 2005
Application numberEP 85109200
Classification (CPC)G11B20/1809

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1986198819901992199419961998200020022004Application filedJuly 23, 1985PublishedJan 29, 1986Patent grantedJan 3, 1990Term endedJuly 23, 2005

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