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Power supply circuit with a storage capacitor

EP 0815635 B1 · Applicant: SGS-THOMSON MICROELECTRONICS S.A.

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  • Filed January 17, 1997 and granted April 3, 2002. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended January 17, 2017.
  • 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 17, 2022.
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FiledJanuary 17, 1997
PublishedJanuary 7, 1998
GrantedApril 3, 2002
Term endedJanuary 17, 2017
Application numberEP 97901107
Classification (CPC)H02M1/4208

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