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Magnetic recording apparatus

EP 0775356 B1 · Applicant: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.

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  • Filed May 24, 1996 and granted August 29, 2001. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended May 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 November 24, 2021.
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FiledMay 24, 1996
PublishedMay 28, 1997
GrantedAugust 29, 2001
Term endedMay 24, 2016
Application numberEP 96913677
Classification (CPC)G11B5/40 +2 more

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