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Support with compartments for cassettes containing recording media

EP 0626095 B1 · Applicant: DEUTSCHE THOMSON-BRANDT GMBH

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  • Filed December 24, 1992 and granted March 4, 1998. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended December 24, 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 June 24, 2018.
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FiledDecember 24, 1992
PublishedNovember 30, 1994
GrantedMarch 4, 1998
Term endedDecember 24, 2012
Application numberEP 93901756
Classification (CPC)G11B23/30 +2 more

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1993199519971999200120032005200720092011Application filedDec 24, 1992PublishedNov 30, 1994Patent grantedMarch 4, 1998Term endedDec 24, 2012

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