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EP 0872097 B1 · Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation

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  • Filed March 20, 1996 and granted February 6, 2002. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended March 20, 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 September 20, 2021.
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FiledMarch 20, 1996
PublishedOctober 21, 1998
GrantedFebruary 6, 2002
Term endedMarch 20, 2016
Application numberEP 96907590
Classification (CPC)H04L63/0281 +1 more

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1997199920012003200520072009201120132015Application filedMarch 20, 1996PublishedOct 21, 1998Patent grantedFeb 6, 2002Term endedMarch 20, 2016

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