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Receiving apparatus and method and phase lock loop circuit

EP 0836282 B1 · Applicant: SONY CORPORATION

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  • Filed October 2, 1997 and granted June 12, 2002. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended October 2, 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 April 2, 2023.
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FiledOctober 2, 1997
PublishedApril 15, 1998
GrantedJune 12, 2002
Term endedOctober 2, 2017
Application numberEP 97307795
Classification (CPC)H04N21/482 +2 more

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