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EP 0829064 B1 · Applicant: SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH, INC.

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  • Filed May 29, 1996 and granted July 25, 2001. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended May 29, 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 November 29, 2021.
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FiledMay 29, 1996
PublishedMarch 18, 1998
GrantedJuly 25, 2001
Term endedMay 29, 2016
Application numberEP 96920552
Classification (CPC)G06V40/168

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