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Apparatus for providing compressed non-interlaced scanned video signal

EP 0707775 B1 · Applicant: RCA Thomson Licensing Corporation

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  • Filed June 17, 1994 and granted August 26, 1998. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended June 17, 2014.
  • 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 17, 2019.
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FiledJune 17, 1994
PublishedApril 24, 1996
GrantedAugust 26, 1998
Term endedJune 17, 2014
Application numberEP 94921317
Classification (CPC)H04N19/587 +2 more

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1995199719992001200320052007200920112013Application filedJune 17, 1994PublishedApril 24, 1996Patent grantedAug 26, 1998Term endedJune 17, 2014

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