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Hypersystolic reed-solomon encoder

EP 0393080 B1 · Applicant: EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY

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  • Filed October 5, 1988 and granted December 28, 1994. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended October 5, 2008.
  • 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 5, 2014.
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FiledOctober 5, 1988
PublishedOctober 24, 1990
GrantedDecember 28, 1994
Term endedOctober 5, 2008
Application numberEP 88909680
Classification (CPC)H03M13/033 +1 more

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1989199119931995199719992001200320052007Application filedOct 5, 1988PublishedOct 24, 1990Patent grantedDec 28, 1994Term endedOct 5, 2008

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