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EP 0776003 B1 · Applicant: SONY CORPORATION

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  • Filed November 21, 1996 and granted January 30, 2002. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended November 21, 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 May 21, 2022.
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FiledNovember 21, 1996
PublishedMay 28, 1997
GrantedJanuary 30, 2002
Term endedNovember 21, 2016
Application numberEP 96402501
Classification (CPC)G11B7/1381 +2 more

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