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High rate/low rate bidirectional data transmission apparatus

EP 0555869 B1 · Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA

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  • Filed February 12, 1993 and granted April 28, 1999. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended February 12, 2013.
  • 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 August 12, 2018.
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FiledFebruary 12, 1993
PublishedAugust 18, 1993
GrantedApril 28, 1999
Term endedFebruary 12, 2013
Application numberEP 93102242
Classification (CPC)H04B3/542

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