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Tv/fm receiver for multimedia applications

EP 0820661 B1 · Applicant: Philips Electronics N.V.

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  • Filed December 17, 1996 and granted March 31, 2004. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended December 17, 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 June 17, 2022.
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FiledDecember 17, 1996
PublishedJanuary 28, 1998
GrantedMarch 31, 2004
Term endedDecember 17, 2016
Application numberEP 96940089
Classification (CPC)H04N5/44 +2 more

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