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Mobile communication terminal device and method of preventing improper rewriting of information

EP 0580432 B1 · Applicant: NEC CORPORATION

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  • Filed July 22, 1993 and granted September 24, 1997. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended July 22, 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 January 22, 2019.
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FiledJuly 22, 1993
PublishedJanuary 26, 1994
GrantedSeptember 24, 1997
Term endedJuly 22, 2013
Application numberEP 93305769
Classification (CPC)H04W88/02

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