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Method and apparatus for changing the timbre and/or pitch of audio signals

EP 0750776 B1 · Applicant: IVL TECHNOLOGIES LTD.

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  • Filed January 18, 1996 and granted September 5, 2001. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended January 18, 2016.
  • 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 July 18, 2021.
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FiledJanuary 18, 1996
PublishedJanuary 2, 1997
GrantedSeptember 5, 2001
Term endedJanuary 18, 2016
Application numberEP 96900481
Classification (CPC)G10H7/08 +2 more

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