Expired European patentEurope
Semiconductor file memory and storage system using the same
EP 0334552 B1 · Applicant: Hitachi Maxell Ltd.
Overview
The published document from the EPO: abstract, claims, description and drawings. Open it full size
Read the whole patent
Listed from its EPO record in Patent Yard's archive of European patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the EPO PDF and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Filed March 16, 1989 and granted May 21, 1997. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended March 16, 2009.
- 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 16, 2014.
- 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.
FiledMarch 16, 1989
PublishedSeptember 27, 1989
GrantedMay 21, 1997
Term endedMarch 16, 2009
Application numberEP 89302613
Classification (CPC)G06F13/4243
Timeline
Timeline From EPO dates
Sources & verification
Official EPO records
Everything on this page comes from the EPO record linked above. EPO data used under CC BY 4.0.