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Software emulation system with dynamic translation of emulated instructions for increased processing speed

EP 0817996 B1 · Applicant: APPLE COMPUTER, INC.

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  • Filed March 20, 1996 and granted August 16, 2001. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended March 20, 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 September 20, 2021.
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FiledMarch 20, 1996
PublishedJanuary 14, 1998
GrantedAugust 16, 2001
Term endedMarch 20, 2016
Application numberEP 96911345
Classification (CPC)G06F9/45504

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