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Artificial neural network read channel

EP 0752702 B1 · Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Company

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  • Filed April 17, 1996 and granted September 19, 2001. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended April 17, 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 October 17, 2021.
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FiledApril 17, 1996
PublishedJanuary 8, 1997
GrantedSeptember 19, 2001
Term endedApril 17, 2016
Application numberEP 96106025
Classification (CPC)G11B20/10009 +2 more

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