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Circuit arrangement for colour television receivers, for regulating the contrast and colour saturation

EP 0200778 B1 · Applicant: Deutsche Thomson-Brandt GmbH

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  • Filed October 30, 1985 and granted April 5, 1989. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended October 30, 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 April 30, 2011.
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FiledOctober 30, 1985
PublishedNovember 12, 1986
GrantedApril 5, 1989
Term endedOctober 30, 2005
Application numberEP 85905798
Classification (CPC)H04N9/68

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1986198819901992199419961998200020022004Application filedOct 30, 1985PublishedNov 12, 1986Patent grantedApril 5, 1989Term endedOct 30, 2005

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