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EP 0872098 B1 · Applicant: NOKIA MOBILE PHONES LTD.

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  • Filed September 30, 1996 and granted August 31, 2005. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended September 30, 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 March 30, 2022.
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FiledSeptember 30, 1996
PublishedOctober 21, 1998
GrantedAugust 31, 2005
Term endedSeptember 30, 2016
Application numberEP 96931835
Classification (CPC)H04M1/02 +2 more

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