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Method and system for detecting fault conditions on multiplexed networks

EP 0827872 B1 · Applicant: Ford Motor Company

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  • Filed August 22, 1997 and granted October 6, 2004. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended August 22, 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 February 22, 2023.
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FiledAugust 22, 1997
PublishedMarch 11, 1998
GrantedOctober 6, 2004
Term endedAugust 22, 2017
Application numberEP 97306439
Classification (CPC)H04L1/22 +1 more

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