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Application modularity in telecommunications exchanges

EP 0546151 B1 · Applicant: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON

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  • Filed June 16, 1992 and granted April 12, 2000. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended June 16, 2012.
  • 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 December 16, 2017.
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FiledJune 16, 1992
PublishedJune 16, 1993
GrantedApril 12, 2000
Term endedJune 16, 2012
Application numberEP 92914273
Classification (CPC)H04Q11/0407 +2 more

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