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Fault tolerant VCR recording control

EP 0492298 B1 · Applicant: RCA Thomson Licensing Corporation

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  • Filed December 12, 1991 and granted July 22, 1998. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended December 12, 2011.
  • 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 June 12, 2017.
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FiledDecember 12, 1991
PublishedJuly 1, 1992
GrantedJuly 22, 1998
Term endedDecember 12, 2011
Application numberEP 91121303
Classification (CPC)H04N7/0887

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1992199419961998200020022004200620082010Application filedDec 12, 1991PublishedJuly 1, 1992Patent grantedJuly 22, 1998Term endedDec 12, 2011

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