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Digital data coding/decoding method and apparatus

EP 0869620 A2 · Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

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  • Filed December 23, 1997 and never granted as a European patent. Had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended December 23, 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 June 23, 2023.
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FiledDecember 23, 1997
PublishedOctober 7, 1998
GrantedNever granted
Term endedDecember 23, 2017
Application numberEP 97310491
Classification (CPC)G10L19/005 +2 more

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