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Mobile unit communication control method

EP 0767446 B1 · Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA

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  • Filed September 24, 1996 and granted March 17, 2004. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended September 24, 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 March 24, 2022.
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FiledSeptember 24, 1996
PublishedApril 9, 1997
GrantedMarch 17, 2004
Term endedSeptember 24, 2016
Application numberEP 96306935
Classification (CPC)G07B15/063 +1 more

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