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Electrical apparatus,in particular a CD changer,for connection to a second electrical apparatus in particular an autoradio

EP 0816172 B1 · Applicant: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH

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  • Filed June 26, 1997 and granted August 27, 2003. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended June 26, 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 December 26, 2022.
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FiledJune 26, 1997
PublishedJanuary 7, 1998
GrantedAugust 27, 2003
Term endedJune 26, 2017
Application numberEP 97110441
Classification (CPC)G11B31/003

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