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Coil switching device

EP 0334775 B1 · Applicant: SGS-THOMSON MICROELECTRONICS S.A.

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  • Filed March 15, 1989 and granted October 13, 1993. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended March 15, 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 15, 2014.
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FiledMarch 15, 1989
PublishedSeptember 27, 1989
GrantedOctober 13, 1993
Term endedMarch 15, 2009
Application numberEP 89420091
Classification (CPC)G11B15/02 +1 more

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